【正文】 been recognized for at least 700 years. However, smoke pollution in London continued and is recorded in both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries there was a marked increase in air pollution, because of the greater use of coal by developing industry. From 1750, the chemical industry began to develop, and this caused the discharge of acid fumes into the smoky air of some manufacturing towns. A Royal Commission was set up in 1862 to consider air pollution and this resulted in the first Alkali Act in 1863, which set limits to the concentration of acid in discharged waste gases. However, the increasing domestic and industrial bustion of coal, and the production of piped coal gas from 1815, caused air pollution to steadily get worse. Large cities were particularly affected, and the well known 5 day smog incident in London in 1952 directly contributed to the deaths of 4000 people. As a result, the Beaver Committee on Air Pollution was established in 1953, and the Clean Air Act was passed in 1956. This was the first effective statute to provide the means of controlling atmospheric pollution.Noise pollution probably started when man first developed machines. The increase in industrial plants in the nineteenth century produce indoor noise pollution of the working environment for many factory and mill workers over a 6 day week. Outdoors, the development of private and public transport bright environmental noise, as the railway services came into use during the 1830s, motor transport from 1900, and regular aero plane services from 1922. during the first half of the twentieth century environmental noise considerably increased, but it was not recognized as pollution. Industrial and outdoor noise was designated as ‘nuisance’ when the Noise Abatement Act was passed in 1960. Whereas the earlier increase in noise occurred in work places and in connection with transport, during the past thirty years noise has spread into the home and places of leisure and entertainment. Certainly the most rapid increase in environmental pollution has taken place during the last 150 years, and it has been attributed to a number of interrelating factors. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUIDSA fluid is a substance which may flow, that is, its constituent particles may continuously change their positions relative to one another. Moreover, it offers no lasting resistance to the displacement, however great, of one layer over another. This means that, if the fluid is at rest, no shear force (that is a force tangential to the surface on which it acts) can exist in it. A solid, on the other hand, can resist a shear force while at rest, the shear force may cause some displacement of one layer over another, but the material does not continue to move indefinitely. In a fluid, however, shear forces are possible only while relative movement between layers is actually taking place. A fluid is further distinguished from a solid in that a given amount of it owes its shape at any particular time to that of a vessel containing it, or to forces which in some way restrain its movement.The distinction between solids and fluids is usually clear, but there are some substances not easily classified. Some fluids, for on the ground, but, although its flow would take place very slowly, yet over a period of time—perhaps several days—it would spread over the ground by the action of gravity, that is ,its constituent particle would change their relative positions. In the other hand, certain solids may be made to ‘flow’ when a sufficiently large force is applied, there are known as plastic solids.Even so, the essential difference between solids and fluids remains. Any fluid, no matter how ‘thick’ or viscous it is, begins to flow, even if i。 OVERFLOW SPILLWAYAn overflow spillway is a section of dam designed to permit water to pass over its crest. Overflow spillways are widely used on gravity, arch, and buttress dams. Some earth dams have a concrete gravity section designed to serve as a spillway. The design of the spillway for tow dams is not usually critical, and a variety of simple crest patterns are used. In the case of large dams it is important that the overflowing water be guided smoothly over the crest with a minimum of turbulence. If the overflowing water breaks contact with the spillway surface, a vacuum will form at the point of separation and cavitations may occur. Cavitations plus the vibration from the alternates making and breaking of contact between the water and the face of the dam may result in serious structural damage.Cavities filled with vapor, air, and other gases will form in a liquid whenever the absolute pressure of the liquid is close to the vapor pressure. This phenomenon, cavitations, is likely to occur where high velocities cause reduced pressure. Such conditions may arise if the walls of a passage are so sharply curved as to cause separation of flow from the boundary. The cavity, on moving downstream, may enter a region where the absolute is much higher. This causes the vapor in the cavity to condense and return to liquid with a resulting implosion, or collapse, extremely high pressure result. Some of the implosive activity will occur at the surfaces of the passage and in the crevices and pores of the boundary material. Under a continual bombardment of these implosions, the surface undergoes fatigue failure and small particles are broken away, giving the surface a spongy appearance. This damaging action of cavitations is called pitting.The ideal spillway would take the form of the underside of the napped of a sharpcrested weir when the flow rate corresponds to the maximum design capacity of the spillway. More exact profiles may be found in more extensive treatments of the subject. The reverse curve on the downstream face of the spillway should be smooth and gradua