Ship resistance/Introduction to Ship Resistance

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Goals

On completing this lesson, you should be able to

• Define Ship Resistance
• understand why we need to measure ship resistance

Material

• Read Introduction of Ship Resistance
• Watch Lecture 1 of video course on Performance of Marine Vehicles at Sea, upto 12:30.

Questions

After going through the material, you should be able to answer the following questions. You may want to answer these in the Answers page (or improve the answers). Feel free to add to this list if you have any questions on the material covered.

1. Define Resistance of a ship.
2. What are the conditions under which resistance is specified?
3. How do we determine the power of the engine to be installed?

Additional Questions

1. Why do we insist that in measuring resistance, the ship be not self propelled?
2. Why do we specify operating conditions for trial and service resistance?

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