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THIS is a textbook which has been compiled for the specific purpose of covering the examination syllabuses of certain universities and professional bodies. It is, therefore, somewhat narrow and rigid in its treatment of the subject, but that it is popular with engineering students is evident from the fact that the work is now in its fourth edition. Indeed, as an examination textbook, it is admirably clear and concise. But as a general review of the subject it is, perhaps unavoidably, a little lacking in breadth. The chapter on flow through open channels, for example, gives the Chezy formula with Bazin's values for the coefficient, but takes no note of the elaborate, and more generally recognised, expressions of Ganguillet and Kutter, or those of Hazen and Williams, Manning, Barnes, and others. The present edition of the book has been enlarged to include new material on the viscous resistance of a fluid, and the sections on hydraulic machines have been considerably amplified. On page 174, the author is mistaken in attributing to the late Lord Kelvin the explanation of scouring at river bends: it is to his brother, the late Prof. James Thomson, that the credit is due.
Hydraulics: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.Inst.C.E. and A.M.I.Mech.E. Examinations in this Subject.
E. H.
Lewitt
By. (Pitman's Engineering Degree Series.) Fourth edition. Pp. xii + 372. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
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C., B. Hydraulics: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the BSc (Eng), AMInstCE and AMIMechE Examinations in this Subject. Nature 130, 152 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130152b0
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