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 225
. [chap. v. a vertical line; as its point of application proceeds along the curve,its direction becomes more and more inclined to the vertical, untilit reaches a maximum inclination at the point of inflection of thetrochoid; thence onwards towards the crest the inclination of thenormal pressure is… … the resultant fluid pressure, and in the diagram several positionsof the raft are indicated to the left of the wave crest. These motionsof the direction of the normal to the trochoid may be compared withthose of a pendulum, performing an oscillation from an angle equalto the maximum inclination of…
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