metacentric

• Chapter four deals with buoyant forces on immersed or floating bodies and the importance of metacentric height on stability. —  AvaxHome RSS:
• Round the top of the scale, at D, are engraved four different draughts, and under these are the metacentric heights. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• The curve may be constructed in the following manner: Having found by calculation the position of the transverse metacenter, M, for a given displacement -- Figs. 1 and 2 -- the metacentric height, G M, is then determined either by calculations, or more correctly by experiment, by varying the position of weights of known magnitude, or by the stability indicator itself. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• Having obtained the curve, A, in this manner for a given metacentric height, we will suppose that on the next voyage, with the same displacement, it is found that, owing to some difference in stowage, the center of gravity is 6 in. higher than before. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• Similarly, if the center of gravity is lowered 6 in. on the same displacement, the curve, B, will be found, and in this manner comparative diagrams can be constructed giving at a glance the stability of a vessel for any given draught of water and metacentric height. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883

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