A manual of naval architecture for the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, yachtsmen, shipowners, and shipbuilders (1894)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London : J. Murray · leaf 178
ees on either side of the vertical, the centreof flotation F does not move far away from the middle line A of theload-line section WjLj. In other words, the common case for war- chap, iv.] OSCILLATIONS OF SHIPS IN STILL WATER. 153 vessels of ordinary form is that where the instantaneous axis… … most cases to regard the ship as rolling about a fixed axis passingthrough the centre of gravity. In theoretical investigations no suchassumption is necessary, because the principle known in dynamicsas the conservation of the motions of translation and rotation thenbecomes applicable. The motion of…
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