Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 20
the vessel = (3 X 6^ X 3.14 169.5<) eu. ft., and of the ii])per part = ^^— -— = 25.12 4: cii. feet. Total voluine. =^ 194:.<)S en. ft., and weiij:ht of water =194.68 X 62.5 = 12,167 pounds. Note that the difference between the dowiiward pressure onthe bottom and the upward pressure on AB =… … /7. _1_ 7. Pressure of Water upon Plane Areas in General. In the preceding articles it has been shown that the pressure persquare inch upon any submerged body is equal to .434 h wj^ere his the head in feet; furthermore, that this pressure is at rightangles to the surface of the body. Let Fig. 6…
