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 461
pon one another, and upon any solid body past which they move.Suppose a thin plate with a plane surface to be entirely immersed inwater and moved end-on, or edgewise, it will experience what istermed frictional resistance from the water with which its surfacecomes into contact. The amount of this… … depend upon the area and the length of the plate, as well as thedegree of roughness of its surface and the speed of its motion. Ifthis plate is moved in a direction at right angles to its surface, itencounters quite a different kind of resistance, termed direct or some-times head resistance; this…
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