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VI. Abstract of Experiments made to determine the True Resistance of the Air to the Surfaces of Bodies, of various figures, and moved through it with different degrees of velocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Charles Hutton
Affiliation:
Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Extract

The experiments from which the following are extracted, make part of a course, instituted at the Royal Military Academy, for determining the resistance of the air to a surface of any form whatever, either plane or curved, moved through it with any degree of velocity. I was induced to undertake these experiments, both for the improvement of my students in the Academy, and with a view to apply the conclusions derived from them towards perfecting the theory and practice of military projectiles, as well as other branches of natural philosophy, in which the pressure or resistance of fluids is concerned: Circumstances, concerning the laws of which, authors on the theory have widely differed; some making the pressure or resistance equal to the weight of a column, whose altitude is equal to the whole height due to the velocity, while others make the altitude very different, either the half or the double of that.

Type
Papers Read Before the Society
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1790

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