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 635
way for thedescription that will now be attempted. Suppose a ship to be advancing on a straight course and with uni-form speed, the stream-line motions on either side being perfectlysymmetrical; then it is known, as the result of model experiments,that the least disturbing cause will produce a… … the pressure on the rudder, the magnitude of which increasesas the helm-angle becomes larger. Fig. 133 shows the plan ofa ship, with the rudder (AB) put over to the angle BAD ; thearrow indicates the line of action of the resultant pressure P.Let G indicate a vertical axis passing through the…
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