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9. One could obtain more maxima, or increased waviness, in the pressure 
curve by introducing higher powers of & into the fractions we have used. 
With the same general method for evaluating the integral y it follows that 
we should obtain expressions of the same type, only more complicated 
in form. 
The various examples which have been studied cover a wide range of 
distributions of the type which one would expect to be associated with the 
motion of a ship, in respect to the formation of transverse waves. It may be 
said that the corresponding resistance curves do not differ essentially from 
those obtained from a simple <listribution. only with the introduction of 
additional coefficients there is possible a wider range of variation. 
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