Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments: With Numerous Scientific Miscellanies

Beaufoy, 1834 - Hydraulics - 688 pages

PREFACE	vii

Pendulum experiments made with solids of the same breadth as those in the two preceding	xxiii

POSTSCRIPT TO THE PREFACE	xxxiii

Definitions and explanatory observations	xxxix

The PROFILE to be placed opposite the Title	lxx

THE REPORT MADE TO THE SOCIETY	lxxi

The INDEX PLATES VI to XVI inclusive to be placed at p 688	lxxv

On the finding the plus and minus pressures together and separately of the different bodies	lxxxv

NAMES OF THE DIFFERENT SOLIDS TRIED IN 1795	73

Isosceles Triangle r drawn through the water by its base	163

Experiments made below the Surface of the Water	187

Parallelopipedon p with parallelopipedon b lengthened by a wedge at each extremity called x immersed six feet	225

Experiments made to ascertain the Resistance of Water at different Depths	252

Experiments made for ascertaining the Resistance of a Plane when placed obliquely to the Shock of running Water	300

A General Table of the Experiments of 1795 at the Surface	322

Conductor with parallelopipedon P with the ends Aa the centre of lower body immersed six feet	334

A	lxxxix

Part I References to the form and dimensions of the bodies tried in 1798	ciii

tion alone of the water against the several surfaces of the different bodies tried in	cxxii

EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES	cv

TABLE OF ERRATA AND OF CORRECTED READINGS	cxii

Parallelopipedon A	1

Triangle F dividing the water with its base	25

Parallelopipedon with a triangle joined to its base called H drawn through the water by its base	38

Parallelopipedon D	48

lengthened by adding a semicircular end to each extremity called	55

The same figure drawn through the water by its vertex	67

Conductor with round iron bar immersed five feet six inches	413

Conductor round bar and cylinder with a semiglobe after body called W immersed six feet	459

Conductor round bar and globe called Z immersed six feet	474

A General Table of the Experiments in 1797	481

New Conductor broad bar and friction plank immersed six feet	487

New Conductor broad bar and short friction plank immersed six feet	499

New Conductor broad bar and body Ao immersed six feet	509

New Conductor broad bar and cylinder L	657

New Conductor broad bar and body a L	665

Copyright

Title	Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments: With Numerous Scientific Miscellanies Volume 1 of Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments: With Numerous Scientific Miscellanies : in Three Volumes, Mark Beaufoy
Authors	Beaufoy, Mark Beaufoy
Publisher	Beaufoy, 1834
Original from	Austrian National Library
Digitized	4 Jul 2018
Length	688 pages

Export Citation	BiBTeX EndNote RefMan

Books