Definition:Hydrostatics
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Definition
Hydrostatics is the branch of fluid mechanics concerned with the study of forces on fluids at rest.
Also see
- Results about hydrostatics can be found here.
Historical Note
The science of hydrostatics was created by Archimedes of Syracuse.
Sources
- 1975: Patrick J. Murphy: Applied Mathematics Made Simple (revised ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Mechanics
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): hydrostatics
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): hydrostatics
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): hydrostatics