| John Nicholson (civil engineer.) - 1825 - 1008 pages
...secondly, when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be i.tarly as 10 to 27$; but thirdly, when the velocities compared are more than double...produces a maximum, the effects increase nearly in a simple ratio of the velocity of the wind. Maxim 6. If sails are of a similar figure and position,... | |
| John Nicholson - 1825 - 822 pages
...secondly, when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be i.early as 10 to 27$; but thirdly, when the velocities compared are more than double...where the given load produces a maximum, the effects iucrease nearly in a simple ratio of the velocity of the wind. Maxim 6. If sails are of a similar figure... | |
| William Grier - 1832 - 366 pages
...velocities ; but when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27J ; and when the velocities compared are more than double...that where the given load produces a maximum, the effect increases only as the increase of the velocity of the wind. 6. If sails are of a similar figure... | |
| Thomas Tredgold - 1836 - 288 pages
...velocities ; 2dly, When the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 : 27| ; .But, 3dly, When the velocities compared, are more...produces a maximum, the effects increase nearly in a simple ratio of the velocity of the wind. It has already been proved, Maxim 1st and 2d, that when... | |
| William Grier - 1836 - 384 pages
...velocities ; but when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27.'; ; and when the velocities compared are more than double...that where the given load produc.es a maximum, the effect increases only as the increase of the velocity of the wind 6. If sails are of a similar figure... | |
| William Grier - 1842 - 320 pages
...velocities ; but when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27j , and when the velocities compared are more than double...that where the given load produces a maximum, the effect increases only as the increase of the velocity of the wind. 6. If sails are of a similar figure... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...effects will be nearly as 10 to 27£. But, 3dly, When the velocity compared is more than double cl that where the given load produces a maximum, the...nearly in the simple ratio of the velocity of the wind. 6. In sails where the figure and position are similar, and the velocity of the wind the same, the number... | |
| Julius Ludwig Weisbach - 1848 - 484 pages
...secondly, when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27£ ; but thirdly, when the velocities compared are more than double...produces a maximum, the effects increase nearly in a simple ratio of the velocity of the wind. 6. If sails are of a similar figure and position, the number... | |
| Oliver Byrne - 1852 - 600 pages
...velocities ; 2dly, when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27 J ; but, 3dly, when the velocities compared are more than double of that when the given load produces a maximum, the effects increase nearly in the simple ratio of the velocity... | |
| William Grier - 1861 - 316 pages
...velocities ; but when the velocity of the wind is double, the effects will be nearly as 10 to 27i ; and when the velocities compared are more than double...that where the given load produces a maximum, the effect increases only as the increase of the velocity of the wind. 6. If sails are of a similar figure... | |
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