Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 · Boston, Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · leaf 76
PRESSURE UPON A SURFACE. [Mec. Cel. and by putting this radius equal to r we shall have that is, the pressure of the particle against the surface is equal to the squares of the velocity, divided by the radius of curvature of the curve it describes. … describe a rectangular parallelopiped, whose sides AD, D d, d c, are respectively parallel to the axes of x, y, z, we shall have A D = d d x, D d — d dy, d c= d d z. The lower figure was drawn separately from the other to enlarge it, so as to avoid confusion in the lines. Now we have as in [11a] Ac…
Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity
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