Mechanics and heat; a text book for collleges and technical schools (1916)
Franklin, William S. (William Suddards), 1863-1930, Macnutt, Barry, 1878-1936, [from old catalog] joint author · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 264
h be expressed in c.g.s. unitsor in the units enumerated at the head of this chapter. Proof of equation (65). Let CC, Fig. 131, be the cylinderof a pump which is used to pump liquid into a tank under apressure of p pounds per square foot, and let the area of thepiston be a square feet. Then the… … Fig. 131. by the movement of the piston, and therefore, dividing apl byal gives the work in foot-pounds required to push one cubicfoot of water into the tank. When a stream of liquid moves in a horizontal plane, thegravity pull of the earth does no work on the liquid; but whena stream flows through…
Mechanics · Heat
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