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Unpublished paper, 'On the uniform flow of a liquid' by Henry Moseley

Reference number: AP/53/6

Date: 1870

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Moseley shares a paper including similar methods featured in an earlier paper, 'On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers by their weight only', (see AP/51/8). He explains that the resistance of every molecule of a liquid at rest which a solid (by moving through it) disturbs, contributes its share to the resistance which the solid experiences; so that the inertia of each molecule so disturbed and its shear must be taken into account in the aggregate, which represents the resistance the liquid offers to the motion of the solid.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Fluid dynamics / Mathematics

Received 1 December 1870. Read 2 February 1871.

Written by Moseley at Olveston Vicarage, Bristol [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 19 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the uniform flow of a liquid'.

Reference number
AP/53/6
Earliest possible date
1870
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
47 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Moseley

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Henry Moseley, Unpublished paper, 'On the uniform flow of a liquid' by Henry Moseley, 1870, AP/53/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_53_6/unpublished-paper-on-the-uniform-flow-of-a-liquid-by-henry-moseley, accessed on 01 December 2024

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