Mechanical and marine engineering science ... Specially written as a handbook to the Board of Trade examinations for extra-first-class engineers (1909)
Somerscales, A. N · Glasgow : J. Munro; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 254
g in waterit will 1 be found to have considerable stability. Let it be pushedor heeled into the position of figure 95, the corners E and B justlevel With the surface. The e.g. of the model is at its geometricalcentre; G,iand the first point to notice is that the e.g. does notchange its position as… … questiioh : arises :—Why is there stability with this model and notwith the ist? To explain this we must notice an essentialdifference between the two cases. In the ist and,2nd the shapepr form of the4i<splaced water didnot change whenthe model wasinclined; the dis-placed portion ofthe model in…
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