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 159
centre ofgravity must be vertical, and instantaneously Gr must be turningabout some point in the horizontal line GZ. The point Z, wherethe two lines GZ and FM intersect, will, therefore, be the instan-taneous centre about which the vessel turns. This simple form of vessel always has the centre of… … •i^x centre of flotation F does not lie on the vertical line BiZM^. Here,however, the same principles apply: G moves about some centrein the line GZO; F about some centre in the vertical line FO;the point of intersection 0 of these two lines fixes the instanta-neous axis for the whole ship. In…
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