Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 268
mes, multiplied by the specific gravityof the liquid, will give the weight of the cargo. The centre of pressure of a floating body is, by (139), thesame point as the centre of gravity of the fluid it displaces. Itis obviously, therefore, an entirely different point from the centreof gravity of the… … Fig. 237. {he point G. The centre of pressure, P, is the centre of gravityof the liquid displaced, and this is obviously below the centre ofgravity of the whole body. Whenthe floating body is not homoge-neous, the centre of gravity maybe below the centre of pressure.For example, if we should…
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