 | John Bourne - Steam-engines - 1873 - 508 pages
...of water delivered each minute by a pipe of any given diameter is as follows -.—Divide 4-72 times the square root of the fifth power of the diameter of the pipe in inches by the square root oftlie quotient obtained by dividing the length of the pipe in feet by the head... | |
 | Engineering - 1905 - 1266 pages
...produce the same velocity in pipes of different sizes or lengths, the difference usually being said to vary as the square root of the fifth power of the diameter. Experiments by different investigators have shown that the following formula will work out a close... | |
 | Horatio Alvah Foster - Electrical engineering - 1901 - 1018 pages
...produce the same velocity in pipes of different sizes or lengths, tlio difference being usually stated to vary as the square root of the fifth power of the diameter. The friction of a fluid within itself is very slight, and therefore the main resistance to flow is... | |
 | American Gas Institute - Gas - 1907 - 1050 pages
...for overcoming the friction in the pipe, s is the specific gravity of the gas, and 1 is the length of pipe in yards. From this formula it will be seen that...diameter of the pipe in inches. The fifth power of 4 is 1,024, and the square root of this is 32, the fifth power of 6 is 7,776, and the square root of... | |
 | William Gage Snow - Heating - 1907 - 172 pages
...the square root of the weight per cubic foot; (2) to the square root of the drop in pressure; (3) to the square root of the fifth power of the diameter of the pipe, and (4) to be inversely proportional to the square root of the length of the pipe. For any other pressure... | |
 | Mining engineering - 1907 - 578 pages
...as one 12-in. pipe. For the same head and length, the flow of water through pipes is proportional to the square root of the fifth power of the diameter of the pipe, or the quantity ratio is equal to the square root of the fifth power of the diameter ratio. For the... | |
 | American Gas Institute - Gas - 1908 - 1166 pages
...pressure required for overcoming the friction in the pipe, s is the specific gravity of the gas. and 1 is the length of the pipe in yards. From this formula...square root of this is 15.59; the fifth power of 4 is 1.024, and the square root of this is 32; the fifth power of 6 is 7,776, and the square root of this... | |
 | Gardner Dexter Hiscox - Hydraulic engineering - 1908 - 362 pages
...second. /dMi From a formula by Eytelwein \f — — X 4.71= volume in cubic feet per minute; by which the square root of the fifth power of the diameter of the pipe in inches, multiplied by the factor 4.71, is made a tabular number for pipe sizes from \ inch to 48 inches in... | |
 | Frank Koester - Hydroelectric power plants - 1909 - 506 pages
...produce the same velocity in pipes of different sizes or lengths, the difference being usually stated to vary as the square root of the fifth power of the diameter. The friction of water within itself is very slight, and therefore the main resistance to flow is the... | |
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From this formula it will be seen that the amount of gas delivered will, everything else remaining the same, vary as the square root of the fifth power of the diameter of the pipe in inches. The... 
