Natural Philosophy: For the Use of Schools and Academies

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Potter, Ainsworth, 1881 - Physics - 509 pages
 

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Page 69 - The loss of weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, or a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.
Page 103 - ... the pressure of the air on the surface of the water in the basin will force it up into the tumbler and nearly fill it (tig.
Page 106 - We know now that the underlying principle is the same as in a mercurial barometer : it is the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the well that pushes the water up into the pump.
Page 176 - Since the specific heat of water is taken as the standard and is one, it may be said that the specific heat of a substance is the amount of heat required to raise or lower the temperature of one pound of the substance one degree Fahrenheit.
Page 12 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 211 - Why the image is seen as far behind the mirror as the object is in front of it.— Let AB be an arrow held Fig.
Page 78 - From equation (258) follow directly the two corollaries : "'The pressure of a gas of constant volume varies directly as the absolute temperature " and " The volume of a gas under constant pressure varies directly as the absolute temperature.
Page 101 - The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cup.
Page 270 - But we must start with a clear conception of an ordinary beam of light. It has been already explained that the vibrations of the individual etherparticles are executed across the line of propagation. In the case of ordinary light we are to figure the etherparticles as vibrating in all directions, or azimuths, as it is sometimes expressed, across this line.
Page 90 - ... is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the...

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