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" The velocity of this wave in channels of uniform depth is independent of the breadth of the fluid, and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top... "
The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette - Page 445
1839
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 7

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1838 - 824 pages
...and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. 3. The velocity of this primary wave is not affected by the velocity of impulse...
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Report of the Committee on Waves: Appointed by the British Association at ...

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Waves, John Scott Russell, Sir John Robison - 1838 - 118 pages
...and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. 3. The velocity of this primary wave is not affected by the velocity of impulse...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1838 - 822 pages
...and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. 3. The velocity of this primary wave is not affected by the velocity of impulse...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 31

Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1839 - 514 pages
...respect altered the views formerly stated by this Committee. The form of the wave is that to whieh the name Hemicycloid has been given ; its velocity...of the motion of the wave, through a space equal to doable the wave's height ; the particles of the water perfectly at rest before the approach of the...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 8

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1855 - 396 pages
...a velocity equal to that acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. In any other than a rectangular channel the effective height is from the top...
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Proceedings, Volume 8

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1855 - 398 pages
...a velocity equal to that acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. In any other than a rectangular channel the effective height is from the top...
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Canal and River Engineering: Being the Article "Inland Navigation," from the ...

David Stevenson - 1858 - 188 pages
...is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. In a sloping or triangular channel the velocity is that of a gravitating body...
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The Practice of Engineering Field Work, Applied to Land, Hydrographic, and ...

W. Davis Haskoll - 1858 - 422 pages
...and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling frcely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. That the velocity of this primary wave is not affected by the velocity of impulse...
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Manual of hydrology

Nathaniel Beardmore - 1862 - 446 pages
...and equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. " 3. That the velocity of this primary wave is not affected bythe velocity of...
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The Principles and Practice of Canal and River Engineering

David Stevenson - 1872 - 424 pages
...is equal to the velocity acquired by a heavy body falling freely by gravity through a height equal to half the depth of the fluid, reckoned from the top of the wave to the bottom of the channel. In a sloping or triangular channel the velocity is that of a gravitating body...
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