 | Charles Haynes Haswell - 1851 - 346 pages
...PRESSURE. The pressure of a fluid on any surface, whether vertical, oblique, or horizontal, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and height equal to the distance of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed, below the surface of... | |
 | John Bourne - 1852 - 360 pages
...must be equal to the weight or pressure which generates that motion, which it is known is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the surface and altitude, the height through which a body must fall to acquire the given velocity.-"... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - 1853 - 264 pages
...whatever be its shape, sustains a pressure equal to the weight of the superincumbent fluid, or equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the bottom, and height equal to the distance from the bottom to the surface — equal to the... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - 1853 - 462 pages
...pressure exerted upon any surface by a heavy fluid is equal to the weight of a cylindrical or prismatic column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the centre of gravity of the surface below the tipper surface... | |
 | J L. Ellenberger - 1854 - 338 pages
...increase per cent.? 192. Since the pressure of a fluid against any upright surface, as a canal gate, is equal to half the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the surface pressed, and its altitude the same as the altitude of that surface, find the pressure of... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel, Karl Friedrich Peschel - 1854 - 314 pages
...the weight of the 100 drops. The pressurt of a fluid on the base of the containing vessel is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the base of the vessel and its height to the distance of the surface of the fluid from the base. From this... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1859 - 368 pages
...is the base. Hence, the vertical component of the pressure on any element of the surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the horizontal projection of the element, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the element from... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...the vessel containing it, or of any other surface, real or imaginary, in contact with it, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that particle, and whose height is equal to its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. 4. If,... | |
 | Thomas Lund - 1864 - 188 pages
...88. COR. 1. By Art. 64, the pressure of a fluid on a horizontal plane immersed in it was shewn to be the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the plane, and whose height is the depth of the plane below the surface of the fluid. Wherefore,... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - 1864 - 204 pages
...mercury. It has been shown that the pressure of a fluid on a horizontal plane immersed in it was equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the plane, and whose height is the depth of the plane below the surface of the fluid. The pressure... | |
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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... 
