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Excerpt from A Treatise on Hydraulics
The unit of time used in all hydraulic formulas is the second, although in numerical problems the time is often stated in minutes, hours, or days. Velocity is defined as the space passed over by a body. In one second under the condition of uniform motion, so that velocities are to be always expressed in feet per second, or are to be reduced to these units if stated in miles per hour or otherwise.
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