| James Ferguson - 1764 - 322 pages
...thicknefs: holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L; and the lead will not fell from the tube, but will be kept to it by the upward preflure of the water below it, occafioned by the height of the water at K above the level of the lead.... | |
| Richard Turner - Children's questions and answers - 1792 - 296 pages
...than eleven times its own thicknefs ; holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L ; and the lead will not fall from the tube, but will...to it by the upward preffure of the water below it (for water preffes upward as well as downward), occafioned by the height of the water at K above the... | |
| Richard Turner - Children's questions and answers - 1795 - 302 pages
...than eleven times its own thicknefs : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L ; and the lead will not fall from the tube, but will be kept to it by the upward preflure of the water below it (for water prefles upward as well as downward ), occafioned by the height... | |
| John Imison - 1796 - 476 pages
...than eleven times its own thicknefs : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L, and the lead will not fall from the tube, but will...water at K above the level of the lead: for as lead is 1,133 times as heavy as its bulk, of water, and is in this experiment immerfed to a depth fomewhat... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...than eleven times its own thicknefs : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L ; and the lead will not fall from the tube, but will...below it occafioned by the height of the water at К above the level of the lead. For as lead is 1 1.33 times as heavy as its bulk of water, and is in... | |
| Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...loofe the thread at L, the lead will not fall from the tube, but be forced upwards againft the tube, by the upward preffure of the water below it, occafioned...heavy as its bulk of water, and is in this experiment immeried to above 11.33 rimes '» thirknefs, in a depth of water, and no water getting into the tube... | |
| Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...lead will not fall from the tube, bat be forced upwards againft the tube, by the upward preflhre of Me water below it, occafioned by the height of the water at K, above the level ot the lead; for as lead is i t.33 times as heavy as its bulk of water, and is in this experiment immerfed... | |
| John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...fall from the tube, Tnit will be kept to it by the upward pressure of the water below it, occasioned by the height of the water at K, above the level of the lead: for as lead is 1.133 times as heavy as its bulk of water, and is in this experiment immersed to a depth somewhat more... | |
| James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...than eleven times its own thickness : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L ; and the lead will not fall from the tube, but will be kept to it by the upward pressure of the water below it, occasioned by the height of the water at K above the level of the lead.... | |
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