The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 282
m this hypothesis, li e and e be the distances of two particlesof water from the centre of the opening, and v, v their velocitiesrespectively, we have the proportion (A) e- : e = v : v.For e = e, v will equal v; that is, at equal distances from the cen-tre of the opening the particles of water have… … FiL.. I. Fif. 2. To render this observation clearer, it may be illustrated by afigure. Let AB, fig. 1, be the projection of the vertical side of areservoir on the horizontal plane of the paper, which intersects thecentre c of ab the aperture; ab the horizontal diameter, and Fmthe horizontal axis,…
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