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Hollow Square Buildings.

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substituting in (Eq. II.) and since

\cos ^{2}\phi ={\frac {\alpha ^{2}}{\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}}}

(VII.)

V^{2}={\frac {15\beta ^{2}+16\alpha ^{2}}{12\alpha ^{2}}}\times g{\sqrt {\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}}}\left(1-\cos \phi \right)

(VII.)

4th. In the case of a hollow rectangular parallelopiped overturned (Fig. 96).

Let the edges of the parallelopiped be $\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma$ the thickness of its walls being small in relation to their lengths, and suppose it overturned round the edge or axis $\gamma$ .

It is easily demonstrable that

$k^{2}={\frac {2\beta \left(\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}\right)+\gamma \ \left(2\alpha ^{2}+3\beta ^{2}\right)}{6\left(\beta +\gamma \right)}}$

and

$a={\tfrac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}}}$

and therefore

{\frac {k^{2}}{\alpha }}={\frac {2\beta \left(\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}\right)+\gamma \ \left(2\alpha ^{2}+3\beta ^{2}\right)}{3\left(\beta +\gamma \right){\sqrt {\alpha ^{2}+\beta ^{2}}}}}

(VIII.)

from which, substituting the value of $l$ in Eq. II., and remembering that $\tan \phi ={\frac {\beta }{\alpha }}$ we obtain $V$ , the horizontal velocity.

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