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 34
, whatis its specific gravity, the weight of Avater l)eing ()2.5 lb. peicu. ft.? 2.0. Ans. 8. If a body of 8 en. ft. in vohmie has a specific gravity of.75, what force is necessary to submerge it? Here the ])iioyanteffect is o-reater tlian the weiglit of the body. 46..) lb. Ans. FLOW OF WATER… … Fig. 2L the same height // above the base level AB as in the large vessel,and tlie pressure in the tubes at any given depth is the same as inthe large vessel at the same depth. If we now make an 0])eningat E so that the w^ater will issue in a vertical direction it has beenexperimentally…
