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 521
line of motion. Various mathematical formulaehave been devised for calculating these normal pressures, resemblingin form those given on p. 438. Experiments have also been made iuorder to determine these pressures. Thibault made the mostelaborate experiments of the kind amongst the earlier… … to the direction of motion of the wind. Ordinates to the curvesrepresent the corresponding normal pressures on the plate. Thecurve ADC represents the assumption that the normal pressurevaries as the sine of the angle of inclination; the curve AEC chap, xii.] PROPULSION BY SAILS. * 497 represents…
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