Module 3: Hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies
  Lecture 7: Calculation of horizontal component, buoyancy
 
 
Forces on submerged bodies (continued)
Horizontal component
Re–consider the submerged surface ‘AB' in a liquid.
 
(Fig. 7a)

Pressure p acts normal to dA, the elemental surface of AB, at a distance Z from the origin or the depth ‘h’ from the top of the liquid surface.

differential pressure-force acting in x-direction
 
    
   
 
(Fig. 7b)
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