In water that is very shallow, compared with the length of the waves, the velocity is nearly independent of the length, and is nearly equal to that acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the water added to three-fourths ofUie lieight... Journal of the Franklin Institute - Seite 521891Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William John Macquorn Rankine - 1863 - 810 Seiten
...circumference is the length of a tears. In water that is very shallow, compared with the length of the waves, the velocity is nearly independent of the length,...and is nearly equal to that acquired by a heavy body iu falling through half (lie depth oftlie water added to three-fourths oftlie heiyht of a wave. Two... | |
| William John Macquorn Rankine - 1867 - 858 Seiten
...shallow, compared with the length of th^ waves, the velocity is nearly independent of the length, and i> nearly equal to that acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the water added to three-fourtlis of the height of a wave. Two or more different series of waves moving in the same, different,... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1867 - 612 Seiten
...r.idius is the undisturbed depth of the water. The velocity with which the wave travels is sensibly equal to ' that acquired by a heavy body in falling through half • Heporte of the British Association, 1844. An Investigation of the theory of those wares by Mr.... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 Seiten
...horizontal component of the disturbance is uniform from surface to bottom is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the canal. But, so far as I know, it has not hitherto been pointed out that a similar law exists for waves... | |
| Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...throughout the whole depth of the canal, the speed of advance of the wave is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the canal — that is to say, in algebraical symbols, let k denote the depth of the canal; g, gravity;... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 646 Seiten
...horizontal component of the disturbance is uniform from surface to bottom is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the canal. But, so far as I know, it has not hitherto been pointed out that a similar law exists for waves... | |
| New York (State). Canal Apprraisers - 1871 - 404 Seiten
...by a body falling through half the radius of a circle whose circumference is the length of the wave. In water that is very shallow compared with the length...and is nearly equal to that acquired by a heavy body falling through half the depth of the water added to f of the height of the wave. Two or more series... | |
| William John Macquorn Rankine - 1873 - 812 Seiten
...circumference is the length- of a wart. In water that is very shallow, compared with the length of the waves, the velocity is nearly independent of the length,...falling through half the depth of the water added to three-fourtlis of the height ofu wave. Two or more different series of waves moving in the same, different,... | |
| Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1873 - 318 Seiten
...horizontal component of the disturbance is uniform from surface to bottom is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body in falling through half the depth of the canal : that is to say — Let g denote gravity, &, the depth of liquid in the canal, and a, the velocity... | |
| William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar - 1889 - 846 Seiten
...circumference is tfie length of a trace. In water that is very shallow, compared with the length of the waves, the velocity is nearly independent of the length,...half the depth of the water added to three-fourths ofUie lieight of a, wave. Two or more different series of waves moving in the same, different, and... | |
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