Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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>PROPOSITION V.</
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If a River diſcharge a certain quantitie of Water
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in a certain time; and after that there come into it
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a Flood, the quantity of Water which is diſchar
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ged in as much time at the Flood, is to that which
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was diſcharged before, whilſt the River was low,
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in a proportion compounded of the proportions of
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the velocity of the Flood, to the velocity of the first
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Water, and of the height of the Flood, to the
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height of the first Water.
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>Suppoſe a River, which whilſt it is low, runs by the Section
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AF; and after a Flood cometh into the ſame, and runneth
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through the Section D F, I ſay, that the quantity of the Wa
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ter which is diſcharged through D F, is to that which is diſcharged
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through A F, in a proportion compounded of the proportions of
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the velocity through D F, to the velocity through A F, and of
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the height D
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B,
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to the height A
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B
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; As the velocity through DF
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is to the velocity through A F, ſo let the line R, to the line S;
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and as the height D
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B
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is to the height A
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B,
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ſo let the line S, to
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the line T; and let us ſuppoſe a Section L M N, equal to D F
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in height and breadth; that is L M equal to D
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B,
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and M N equal
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to
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B F
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; but let it be in velocity equal to the Section A F, there
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fore the quantity of Water which runneth through D F, ſhall be
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to that which runneth through LN, as the velocity through DF,
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is to the velocity through L N, that is, to the velocity through
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A F
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; and the line R being to the line S, as the velocity through
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D
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F,
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to the velocity through
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A F
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; therefore the quantity which
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runneth through D
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F,
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to that which runneth through L N, ſhall
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have the proportion of R to S; but the quantity which runneth
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through L N, to that which runneth through
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A F,
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