 | Rutgers University. College of Agriculture - 1887 - 222 pages
...resist the water-pressure. The pressure exerted by a fluid in any direction upon a surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the projection of the surface at right angles to the given direction, and whose height is the depth... | |
 | Sir Richard Glazebrook - 1895 - 248 pages
...PROPOSITION 16. To shew that the resultant thrust on any plane surface under fluid pressure is equal to the weight of a, column of the fluid whose base is the area of the surface and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity y^the surface. Let the... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook - Hydrostatics - 1895 - 682 pages
...PROPOSITION 16. To shew that the resultant thrust on any plane surface under fluid pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the surface and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface. Let... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - Heat - 1897 - 378 pages
...pressure, on any surface immersed in a liquid, is equal to the weight of a column of liquid, of height equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface, and having a crosssection equal in area to that of the surface. That is, P — hsdg where g is the... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Hydrostatics - 1905 - 332 pages
...weight of a cylinder of liquid whose base is equal to the area of the given surface, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the liquid. Explain how it is that the total force exerted upon the side of any... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - Light - 1910 - 434 pages
...whose area of cross-section is the area of the surface in contact with the liquid, and whose length is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface* below the surface of the liquid. Example. — A trough of triangular cross-section, as shown in Fig.... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1911 - 760 pages
...liquid, under gravity) is equal to the weight of a cylindrical column of liquid, the height of which is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface and whose base is equal in area to the area of the surface. A circular area is immersed in a homogeneous... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Hydrostatics - 1953 - 346 pages
...weight of a cylinder of liquid whose base is equal to the area of the given surface, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the liquid. Explain how it is that the total force exerted upon the side of any... | |
 | 1897 - 734 pages
...base, is everywhere equal to the area of the surface pressed, and whose height is equal to the vertical depth of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed below the horizontal surface of the water. In vessels of any size or shape whatever, if they contain the same... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - Botany - 1891 - 516 pages
...ia everywhere equal to the area of the surface pressed ; and whose height is equal to the vertical depth of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed below the surface of the water. It is a natural mistake among young students of hydrostatics to fall into the... | |
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BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
