thefluid—liquid or gaseous, homogeneous or heterogeneous. If the curved surface M is not one merely traced outin imagination in the fluid, but the surface of a solid bodydisplacing fluid, the result is the same— the remltant pressure of a heavy finid on ihe surface of anysolid hody M is a vertical… … Fig. 34- Let Pig. 34 represent the solid body, which we mayimag-ine to be a mass of iron, the suiTounding fluid beingwater, aii-, or any fluid acted upon by gravity. The bodyis represented as held in its position by cords attachedto fixed points, C,D, ..., and the arrows represent pressuresexerted…
Hydrostatics · Hydrodynamics
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