Excerpt from A Text Book of Naval Architecture: For the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy
The vertical fluid pressures are the most important, as these give the buoyancy which supports the ship. Since any number of parallel forces may be supposed replaced by a single force - or resultant as it is termed - acting parallel to them and equal to their sum, it is only necessary to...
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