Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 870
descent from the horizontal line m n, in Fig. 3808,may then be assigned by the following method: Let u designate the velocity of the water at the ex- _ *^ tremity of the course, and a the angle, which the direc-tion-board of the spout forms with the horizontal line m », and which expresses the… … X being the abscissa3 measured upon the horizontalplane, taken at half the depth of the fluid vein, wherethe mean velocity is ?(; and y the vertical ordinates referred to the same initial point at ». This equation may be expressed verbally thus : To find the ordinates of the mean curve described by…
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