This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...column its pressure tends to oppose the progress and retard the velocity of the fluid in motion, and thus retarding the posterior and accelerating the anterior surface, widens the space between its own bounding planes until it repose once more on the original level. The Wave a Vehicle of Power.--The wave is thus a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...column its pressure tends to oppose the progress and retard the velocity of the fluid in motion, and thus retarding the posterior and accelerating the anterior surface, widens the space between its own bounding planes until it repose once more on the original level. The Wave a Vehicle of Power.--The wave is thus a receptacle of moving power, of the power required to raise a given volume of water from its place in the channel to its place in the wave, and is ready to transmit that power through any distance along that channel with great velocity, and to replace it at the end of its path. In doing this the motion of the water is simple and easily understood, each column is diminished in horizontal dimension and increased proportionally in vertical dimension, and again suffered to regain its original shape by the action of gravity. There is no transference of individual particles through, between and amongst one another, so as to produce collisions, or any other motions which impair moving force; the particles simply glide for the moment over each other into a new arrangement, and retire back to their places. Thus the wave resembles that which we may conceive to pass along an elastic column, each slice of which is squeezed into a thinner slice, and restored by its elastic force to its original bulk, only in the water wave the force which restores the force of each water column is gravity, not elasticity. To conceive accurately of the forces which operate in wave transmission, and of the modus operandi, to understand how the primary moving force acts on the column of fluid in repose, how this force is distributed among the particles, to distinguish the relative and absolute motions of the particles and the nature of the transmission of the form, and to understa...
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Add this copy of Report on Waves: Made to the Meetings of the British to cart. $37.63, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Report on Waves: Made to the Meetings of the British to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.
