Greenhill, G. (George), Sir, 1847-1927 · London and New York, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 85
is a portion of thecurved bottom of a ship ; then the vertical thrust on BGis upwards; and now the superincumbent liquid must betaken as the fictitious quantity required to fill up thecylinder BGcb to the level be of the water outside. 74 VERTICAL COMPONENT OF THRUST So also if BC is the underside… … It might happen, as in fig. 30, that BC was part of acurved surface like the ram of a warship, such that thevertical thrust of the liquid on it was partly upwards andpartly downwards; in this case it will be necessary tocut up BC into two parts by the line DFE, along whichthe tangent planes to the…
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