A Treatise on the Stability of Ships (Paperback)

1. Primary conditions of flotation and stability; 2. Fuller consideration of the metacentre; 3. Further conditions of stability of square prisms; 4. General case: stability of body of irregular form; 5. Longitudinal metacentre; 6. Purpose of 'metacentric diagrams'; 7. Stability of certain war-ships; 8. Elements to be determined in calculating stability; 9. Mr. Macfarlane Gray's system of diagrams and calculations; 10. Professor Elgar's vertical or cross-curves of stability; 11. Brief historical survey of geometrical aspect of stability; 12. Dupin's investigations; their generality; 13. French systems of calculating stability; 14. Merrifield's suggested mode of approximating to evolute of curve of buoyancy; 15. Dynamical stability; 16. M. Daymard's process of stability calculation; 17. Amsler-Laffon's mechanical integrator; 18. Rolling of ships at sea; 19. Importance of determining longitudinal and vertical positions of centre of gravity; Index.