 | William Emerson - 1758 - 410 pàgines
...CVII. If a, flream of any fluid as water, flows direRly againft any plane furface ; its force againfl that plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, wbofe bafe is the fection of the flream ; and its length, twice the height defcended by a falling body,... | |
 | Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pàgines
...a fluid is as the square of the velocity; and putting r~ velocity in feet in a second ; it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the plane, and height — . And in a globe 64 it is but half so much. 5. As to the mechanic powers, the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1807 - 464 pàgines
...is as the height of the fluid. 271. Carol. 3. The pressure of the fluid on any horizontal surface or plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that plane, and altitude is its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. PROPOSITION PROPOSITION... | |
 | William Marrat - 1810 - 512 pàgines
...Ee were a plane surface moving perpendicularly in a fluid, the resistance against it would be equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the surface resisted, and altitude the space through which a body must fall from rest, in vacuo, to acquire... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 494 pàgines
...height of the fluid. 309. Corol 309. Corol. 3. The pressure of the fluid on any horizontal surface or plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that plane, and altitude is its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. PROPOSITION LXI.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 pàgines
...and its altitude the same as that of the surface. Or, by art. 31* of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and its altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity below the... | |
 | 1812 - 352 pàgines
...pressure of a fluid against any upright surface, as the gate of a sluice or canal, is equal to half the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the surface pressed, and its altitude the same as the altitude of that surface. 7. The pressure of a fluid,... | |
 | Isaac Dalby - 1813 - 538 pàgines
...given velocity v, act against a plane in a perpendicular direction, the real or absolute force on the plane is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the plane, and height equal to the height through which a heavy body must descend from rest by its own... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pàgines
...demonstrated that the resistance of a cylinder, which moves in the direction of its axis, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that of the cylinder, and its altitude equal to the height through which a body must fall... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1816 - 492 pàgines
...that the resistance opposed to a plane surface moving in a fluid, in a direction perpendicular to the plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the area of the plane, and height the space through which a body must fall by gravity to acquire its velocity.... | |
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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. 
