Hydrostatics : A Text-Book for the Use of First Year Students at the Universities and for the Higher Divisions in Schools (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Pressure of heavy fluids; 3. Centres of pressure; 4. Thrusts on curved surfaces. Floating bodies; 5. Stability of floating bodies; 6. Equilibrium of fluids in given fields of force; 7. Pressure of gases. The atmosphere; 8. Hydrostatic machines; 9. Capillarity.