 | William Enfield - 1811 - 476 Seiten
...which the stream moves. If any stream strikes upon a given obstacle, the force will (by Prop. XXVI.) be equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the obstacle, and whose height is equal to the space through which a body must fall to acquire the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 604 Seiten
...5.), it will be measured according to what we have said respecting the lifting pump (art. 528.), by the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to CD, and height that of XY above ns. Here, too, we drop the consideration of friction and the weight... | |
 | James Smith - 1815 - 942 Seiten
...Here it is evident that a few grains of water sustain as much as the H.\tii>MtM*r<. PITOUV* of fluids. weight of a column of water, whose base is equal to the diameter of <()«• vessel KtJ, and its height equal to that in the tube. Thus the column Lit, produces... | |
 | Miles Bland - 1824 - 380 Seiten
...repeating the operation may be raised to the required altitude. The pressure upon the piston is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to that of the piston, and altitude the distance of the surface of the water in the ascending tube from... | |
 | John Farrar - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...determinate height Y//, it will be measured according to what we have said respecting the lifting pump by the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to CD, and height that of XY above RS. Here, too, we leave out of consideration the friction and the weight... | |
 | 1829 - 522 Seiten
...feet ; that is, Л feet. Thus it appears, that it requires a force to lift the piston exactly equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is equal to the section of the piston, and whose height is that of the water in the suction-pipe, above the level of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 402 Seiten
...it appears, that the pressure exerted by the water in PV on the lower surface of the piston is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to the section of the piston, and whose height is MN. This, therefore, is the force to be overcome in the... | |
 | 1832 - 354 Seiten
...water from the valve v to the surface of the water in the tube C E. The actual amount of this force is the weight of a column of water, whose base is equal to the horizontal section of the piston, and whose height is equal to the height of the surface of the water... | |
 | 1833 - 426 Seiten
...will fill themselves from the well K. The power of a machine of this kind may be stated as being equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to the height of the fluid in the pipe L ; and were this pipe a transparent tube, with a graduated scale attached... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - 502 Seiten
...will fill themselves from the well K. The power of a machine of this kind may be slated as being equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to the heigh t of the fluid in the pipe L ; and .were this pipe a transparent tube, with a graduated scale... | |
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Hence the total pressure upon the side of a vessel containing water will be equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is equal to the area of... 
