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" 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. "
A Course of Mathematics for the Use of Academies, as Well as Private Tuition - Page 203
by Charles Hutton - 1822
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The Principles of Mechanics: Explaining and Demonstrating the General Laws ...

William Emerson - 1758 - 410 pages
...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,...
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A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Explanation of ...

Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pages
...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,...
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A Course of Mathematics in Two Volumes for the Use of Academies as Well as ...

Charles Hutton - 1807 - 464 pages
...The Real Resistance to a Plane, by a Fluid acting in a Direction perpendicular to its Face, is equal to the Weight of a. Column of the Fluid, whose Base is the Plane, and ^Altitude equal to that which is , due to the Velocity of the Motion, or through which...
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics: In Five Books ...

William Marrat - 1810 - 512 pages
...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...
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A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the ...

Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 pages
...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 top or...
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A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the ...

Charles Hutton - 1811 - 494 pages
...The Real Resistance to a Plane, by a Fluid acting in a Direction perpendicular to its Face, is tqual to the Weight of a Column of the Fluid, -whose Base is the Plane, and Altitude equal to that -which is due to the Velocity of the Motion, or through -which...
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - 1812 - 624 pages
...fluid. For the pressure is as the weight, •and the weight is- us the height ofthe fluid. 309. Carol, 5. The pressure of the fluid on any horizontal surface...column of the fluid, whose . base is equal to that plunc, and altitude is its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. PROPOSITION LXI. 310. When a...
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A Course of Mathematics: Designed for the Use of the Officers and ..., Volume 2

Isaac Dalby - 1813 - 538 pages
...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...
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...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 in vacuo, by the...
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The Principles of Fluxions: Designed for the Use of Students in the Universities

William Dealtry - 1816 - 492 pages
...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...
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