A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen (1889)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London, J. Murray · leaf 158
ts as a retardingforce, tending to extinguish the oscillations.The position of the instantaneous axis aboutwhich a ship is turningat any moment, sup-posing her motion to beunresisted, and the dis-placement to remain con-stant during the motion,may be determined bymeans of a geometricalconstruction… … shown in Fig. 49.with the circular If a circlesection, and F, this circle will touch thewater-line corresponding to any other inclined position ; for allthe tangents to this circle cut off from the circular section asegment equal in area to WVL. The circle F3F1F2 is termedthe curve of flotation,…
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