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Centre of Water Pressure

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DR. ROUTH has done me the favour of pointing out that in the first volume of his “Rigid Dynamics” he has given the following very simple result with regard to the centre of pressure of a triangle occupying any position in a liquid:—“This point is the centre of gravity of three particles at the middle points of the sides, with masses proportional to their depths.”

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MINCHIN, G. Centre of Water Pressure. Nature 37, 275 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037275c0

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