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" And when this is compared with the proportion of the velocity and length of gun in the last paragraph, it is evident that we gain extremely little in the range by a great increase in the length of the gun, with the same charge of powder. In fact the range... "
A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the ... - Page 259
by Charles Hutton - 1811
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - 1812 - 624 pages
...Penetrations of Sails into solid Kim wood. Powder 2 4 S oz. 7 16-6 13-5 18-9 21-2 18-1 20-8 20-5 Means 7 15 i 20 charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar...gun — From the same table it also appears, that tho time of the ball's flight is nearly as the range ; the gun and elevation being the same. It has...
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Tracts on Mathematical and Philosophical Subjects: Comprising Among Numerous ...

Charles Hutton - 1812 - 406 pages
...little in the rartge by a great increase in the length of the gun, the charge being the same. And indeed the range is nearly as the 5th root of the length...is so small an increase, as to amount only to about •fth part more range for a double length of gun. Gun n* Length of the bore Length filled Part of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 9

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
...elevation being the same. And when this is compared with the proportion ot the velocity and length of the gun in the last paragraph, it is evident that we gain...amount only to about a. 7th part more range for a doubla length of gun. From the same table it also appears, that the time of the ball's flight is nearly...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 9

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 - 556 pages
...elevation being the same. And when this is compared with the proportion ot the velocity and length of the gun in the last paragraph; it is evident that we gain...increase, as to amount only to about a 7th part more range fora double* length of DD 4 gun. gun. From the same table it also appears, that the time of the ball's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10

1813 - 1102 pages
...increase in. the length of the gun, with the same charge of powder. In fact, the range is nearly as Ae 5th root of the length of the bore; which is so small...From the same table it also appears, that the time of tbe ball's flight is nearly as the range ; the gun and elevation being the same. ' It appears too,...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 10

1813 - 662 pages
...little in the range by a great increase in the length of the gun, the charge being the same. And indeed the range is nearly as the 5th root of the length...is so small an increase, as to amount only to about ^th part more range for a double length of gun. ' 5thly. From the same table in Art. 121, it also appears,...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 5

John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...gained in the range by a great increase in> the length of the gun, the charge being the same. And indeed the range is nearly as the 5th root of the length...bore, which is so small an increase as to amount only tn about jlh part more range for a double length of gun. " •',•. It also appears that the time...
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A Course of Mathematics for the Use of Academies: As Well as ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - 1826 - 682 pages
...little in the range by a great inrnjase in the length of the gun, with the same charge of powder, (n fact the range is nearly as the 5th root of the length...to amount only to about a 7th part more range for a douhle length of gun. — From the same table it also appears, that the time of the ball's flight is...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...increase in the length of the gun, the charge being the same. And indeed the range is nearly as the fifth root of the length of the bore, which is so small an increase as to amount only to about one-seventh part more range for a double length of gun. ' 5. It also appears that the time of the ball's...
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Elementary lectures on artillery, by C.H. Owen and T.L. Dames

Charles Henry Owen, Thomas Longworth Dames - 1861 - 354 pages
...in the length of the gun, with the same charge of powder. In fact, the range is nearly as the fifth root of the length of the bore, which is so small an increase, as to amount only to about one-seventh part more range for a double length Time of flight of gun. From the same Table, it also...
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