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 465
f a ship moving at the surface of frictionless water, the onlyresistance to be overcome will be that due to surface disturbance.For the wholly submerged body which creates no waves therewill be no resistance, when once the motion has been madeuniform; the stream-lines once established in a… … water has its motion modified in passing a solid body, and re- turns exactly to its original velocity and direction of motion before ceasing to act on the solid body, it exerts on the whole no resultant force on the solid body because there is no per- manent change of its momentum. In every stream…
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