Download or read book The Resistance and Propulsion of Ships (Classic Reprint) written by William Frederick Durand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Resistance and Propulsion of Ships In the development of such methods the purpose has been to supply plain paths along which the student may pro ceed step by step from the initial conditions to the desired results, and to arrange the method in such a way as shall con duce to the most intelligent application of engineering judg ment and experience. In the design of screw-propellers especially, where the number of controlling conditions is necessarily large, the purpose has been to present a mode of solution in which the most important controlling conditions are represented in the formulae, and in which the determina tion of the numerical values of these representatives by auxiliary computation, estimate, or assumption is forced upon the attention of the student in such a way as to call at each step for a definite act of engineering judgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.