 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - 406 pages
...high a proportion as the length of the gun is ; so that the part of the bore filled with powder, bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns,...inverse ratio of the square root of the empty part. 11. Jt appears that the velocity, with equal charges, always increases as the gun is longer ; though... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 pages
...high a proportion as the length of the gun is ; so that the part of the bore filled with powder, bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns,...of the square root of the empty part. ' It appears too, that the velocity, with equal charges, always increases as the gun is longer; though the increase... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...high a proportion as the length of the gun is ; so that the part of the bore filled with powder, bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns,...filled being indeed nearly in the inverse ratio of the; iquare root of the empty part. ' It appears too, that the velocity, with equal charges, always increases... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...of the gun is; so that the part of the bore filled with powder bears a less proportion to the whole in the long guns, than it does in the shorter ones ; the part of the whole rhich is filled being indeed nearly in the reciprocal subduplicate ratio of the length... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 604 pages
...high a proportion as the length of the gun is; so that the part of the bore filled with powder, bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns, than it does in the shorter ones ; tire part which is filled being Elevation of guu. Velocity of ball. Time of flight. Powder. Range.... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1826 - 604 pages
...the part of the bore filled with powder, bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long funs, than it does in the shorter ones ; the part which is filled eing indeed nearly in the inverse ratio of the square root of the empty part. " 2. It appears that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...increases with the length of the gun, but not in equal proportion. The part filled with powder bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns than in the shorter ones ; it is nearly in the inverse ratio of the square root of the empty part. It appears... | |
 | Charles Henry Owen, T. L. Dames - 1861 - 366 pages
...high a proportion as the length of the gun is ; so that the part of the bore filled with powder bears a less proportion to the whole bore in the long guns,...inverse ratio of the square root of the empty part. Effect of length (2) " It appears that the velocity (initial) with equal charges, tiafveiooity?1" always... | |
 | 1862 - 966 pages
...whole bore in 1 ng guns, than it does in shorter ones ; the part which is filled being indeed neaily in the inverse ratio of the square root of the empty part." 2. " It appears that the (initial) velocity with equal charges, always increases as the gun is longer... | |
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... increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes, till the bore is quite full of powder. That this charge for the greatest velocity is greater as the gun is longer, but yet not greater in so high a proportion as the length of the gun is ;... 