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 309
ions are only another form of statement for the twoessential conditions of equilibrium for the ship floating at rest.Taking any ordinate (say PQ), the intercept (QR) between thetwo curves represents the excess (or defect) of buoyancy at thatplace. Where the curve of buoyancy lies outside the curve… … are equal, and these are termed water-borne sections. A moreconvenient mode of representing these excesses or defects ofbuoyancy is furnished in Fig. 84. Here the base-line and thedotted ordinates correspond to those in Fig. 83; and on anyordinate of those curves the intercept (say QR) is* measured…
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