Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 326
he ments, based on Rodman's velocimeter, cylinder were at rest, and that it would be have, we believe, been proposed from curved if the cylinder were revolving. time to time, but hitherto the difficulties Let us assiame that the cylinder be of reducing theory to practice have been made to revolve,… … PR, Then The velocity, v, of the shot at any point v =V. of the curve, P, for instance, will be found QE Similarly if the curve A B represent the by drawing a tangent and perpendicular whole time, T, of the shot in. passing from P to Q and R.
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