Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 432
resistance will be equal tohalf the height of the wave acting against the breadth of the ship.Supposing that no disturbing forces were in existence in in- 416 STEAM NAVIGATION. terfering with the upward and downward motio.ii of the water,a particle of water at the forefoot b, fig. 48, would, as the… … As, however, as soon as the particle passes above w l, it has toencounter nearly the whole force of gravity, its momentum willnot suffice to carry it up far, and it will proceed above the wa-ter level only to some such point as a, and will then immedi-ately pass downward and astern in the track of…
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