CONTENTS 



SECTION I. 



PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER HYDROSTATICS. 

 CHAPTER I. 



ART. PAGE 



1. Historical Resume 1 



2. Physical Properties of Water . . 2 



3. Cohesion ; Adhesion ; Capillarity ; Surface Tension . . . . . . 5 



4. Viscosity . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . 11 



CHAPTER II. 



5. Hydrostatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 



6. Pressure at a Point . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 



7. Pressure Head 16 



8. Transffiissibility of Pressure Hydraulic Press 18 



9. Pressure Gauges Differential Gauges 19 



10. Resultant Pressure and Centre of Pressure 26 



11. Equilibrium of Floating Bodies 32 



12. Oscillations of Ships . . . . . . .... 36 



13. Strength of Pipes and Cylinders. . . . 38 



SECTION II. 



HYDRAULICS. 



CHAPTER III. 



14. Modes of Motion of a Fluid . . .... 44 



15. Vortices . . .... 46 



16. Conditions Regulating the Two Modes of Motion . . . . 49 



17. Critical Velocity ...... .... 51 



18. Critical Velocity in Converging Tubes 55 



19. Motion of a Fluid . . . . 57 



20. Equations of Motion for a Viscous Fluid . . . . . . . . . . 58 



21. Application to Stream Line Motion .... . . . . . . 63 



22. Effect of Molecular Motion .... . . 65 



23. Flow against Viscous Resistances . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 



24. Viscous Flow between Parallel Plates 66 



25. Viscous Flow through Circular Pipe . . 68 



26. Viscous Flow, assuming Slip at Boundaries . . 70 



27. Eddy Formation . . 70 



