The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 97
ble t!ie parabola A O R = 1516 68 ; theother, A II V, 4 feet bij.^li, will be 3326t; whence the trapeziumH Y R () will be the scale of the velocity, ami tlie ((uaiitity ofwater passim; in a yiven time tirou:;h the section II () ^ IlKtOt.if the parabola S I () be .5 feet liigh, its value in the… … I his numl)er not beina: precisely to be found in our table, find thene.\t highest, =: U7-60, wliich corresponds to a height of 2 feet;whence we arrive at tiie conclusion tliat the regurgitation at thepoint O has raised the water 2 feet more than the first, supposedto be 4 feet. To facilitate the…
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