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 206
nsof the raft are indicated to the left of the wave crest. Thesemotions of the direction of the normal to the trochoid may becompared with those of a pendulum, performing an oscillation See remarks on this subject at page 135 of Chapter IV. CHAP. V. DEEPS E A WAVES. 185 from an ano-le equal to the… … The maximum slope of the wave to the horizon occurs at apoint somewhat nearer the crest than the hollow, but no greaterror is assumed in supposing it to be at mid-height in oceanwaves of common occurrence where the radius of the tracing arm(or half-height of the wave) is about one-twentieth of the…
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