 | William Enfield - 1811 - 476 pages
...half the pressure on au equal surface at the bottom XR ; which pressure (by Prop I. and III ) is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface ZC^, and whose height is the depth of the stream. Therefore the pressure against the surface... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 736 pages
...contraction, by requiring an augmentation of velocity, employs a part of the impelling force precisely equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the contracted passage, and whose height is the fall which would produce a velocity equal to this augmentation.... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - 1825 - 1046 pages
...same time. PROP. 4. — The force oj a stream of watir against any plane obstacle at rest, is equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the stream ; and height the space destended through by a falling body, to acquire that velocity. For let... | |
 | William Emerson - 1825 - 506 pages
...the fluid against the plane. 2s Cor. \ . The force of a stream of water against any plane, is eyual to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the stream, and height !!£. ; or the height of the water, if it flow 2s through a hole at the bottom of... | |
 | 1858 - 648 pages
...object in the absence of any horizontal motion ! Nor is it hydrostatic pressure, which pressure is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface pressed, &c.; this pressure is that sustained by dock gates with a head of water on one side... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1828 - 474 pages
...smaller, or larger, than the cylinder GH, the body of water supported by the workman is always equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface of the piston Б, and depth the distance £ F above the surface of) the water In the well.... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 402 pages
...the piston and rods increases the one as much as it diminishes the other, the entire force will be the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is PC + MN, that is, the height of the level of the water in the ascending pipe above the level of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 378 pages
...required at each stroke to lift the piston. The column of water discharged at each stroke, is equal to a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston, and whose altitude is the length of the stroke. The quantity may therefore be found, in cubic feet, by multiplying... | |
 | William Grier - 1832 - 366 pages
...inches in 12 feet length. The resistance which is opposed to a pump rod in raising water, is ~equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and height the height of the surface of the water in the body of the pump above... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1835 - 374 pages
...required at each stroke to lift the piston. The column of water discharged at each stroke, is equal to a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston,. and whose altitude is the length of the stroke. The quantity may therefore be found, in cubic feet, by multiplying... | |
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... is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the distance of the level of the water in the barrel AC, above the level in the reservoir. 
