INDEX.
- of aeroplane employed, § 153; superposed planes, §§ 154, 233; pressure-velocity and pressure-angle laws, § 232; influence of aspect, § 233; critical angle, or angle of reversal, §§ 233, 234; on the efficiency of an aerial propeller, § 235; misquotes Newton, §§ 232, 238
- Langley's experiments, § 230 et seq.; suspended plane, § 231; resultant pressure recorder, § 232; plane dropper, § 233; component pressure recorder, § 234; dynamometer chronograph. § 235; counterpoised eccentric plane, § 236; rolling carriage, § 237; summary, § 238
- Larmor's theorem, sound momentum, discussion of, App. II. B.
- Leaping or bounding flight, theory of, App. IV.
- Least energy, conditions of, § 164
- Least horse power, values of β and γ, § 176
- Least resistance, equation of, § 171
- Least value of γ, table of, § 181
- Length of blade (screw propeller), conjugate limits, § 212
- Lilienthal, arched section, § 108
- Linear grading, of propeller blades, § 209
- Lines of force (see Force), §§ 60, 113
- Load grading, of propeller blades, § 208
M.
- Mathematical treatment, hydrodynamics, § 59
- Maxwell, definition of viscosity, § 31; method of hydrodynamic plotting due to, § 74
- Moilliard, the ballasted aeroplane mentioned by, § 162; supposed change in position of centre of gravity, § 162
- Momentum, continuous communication of, § 3; principle of no momentum, §§ 5, 6, App. II.; in theory of propulsion, communication of, § 197 et seq.; transference of, from different standpoints, § 7; communication of, as source of sustentation in fight, §§ 109, 111, 112, 160, 161, 174; apparent momentum, § 81; of sound waves, App. II.
- Motion of fluid, in vicinity of streamline body, § 13; relative motion, stream lines, § 14; in vicinity of wing or aerofoil, § 107 et seq.; hypothetical in theory of flight, §§ 160, 161; discontinuous in vicinity of aerofoil, §§ 188, 189, 190, see also Discontinuity; round about propeller and in race, § 217; in wake of a loaded aerofoil, §§ 126, 127
- Multiple connectivity, meaning of, §§ 62, 63
- Mutilation of streamline form, §§ 26, 27
N
- Negative slip, in propulsion, Froude's explanation, § 200
- "Neoids," Rankine's water lines, § 177
- Newton, definition of viscosity, § 31; medium of, its nature, § 2; medium of, essentially discontinuous, § 23; method of, founded on third law of motion, § 2; method of the Newtonian medium, demonstration, § 3
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