Lecture 7: Calculation of horizontal component, buoyancy
Let us calculate this integral for simple geometries.
(Fig. 7c)
See the figure presented above. All four surfaces marked as ‘AB' have the same projected area, marked as A'B', on Y-Z plane because the depths (h1 and h2) of A and B are the same for all four geometries. Therefore, will assume identical values for all cases as follows:
(Assuming unit width of the surface)
(Fig. 7d)
Let us re-arrange the right hand Side of the expression