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 224
CHAP. V.] DEEP-SEA WAVES. 199 represent in magnitude and direction the resultant of the two forcesacting on the particle. Now, it is an established property of a fluidthat its free surface will place itself at right angles to the resultantforce impressed upon it. For instance, take the simple case… … (nearly). tion of the force F ; then we shall have uniformly accelerated motion,equal increments of velocity being added in successive units of time.In order to compare this force with that of gravity, if / is thevelocity added per second of time, and W is the weight of the boxand water, we should…
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