 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...Hence is found the ratio of the fpecific gravities of folids, by weighing in the fame fluid, maffes of them that weigh equally in air, and noting the weight loft bj each. n. A body defcends in a fluid that is fpecificallY lighter, but afcends in a fluid that is... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Hydrostatics - 1831 - 382 pages
...in a heavier displaces a portion of that heavier equal to its own bulk, and it is urged upwards by a force equal to the difference between its weight and the weight of the heavier liquid which it displaces. What is true of one particle is equally true of any number ;... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Fluid mechanics - 1832 - 298 pages
...in a heavier displaces a portion of that heavier equal to its own bulk, and it is urged upwards by a force equal to the difference between its weight and the weight of the heavier liquid which it displaces. What is true of one particle is equally true of any number;... | |
 | John H. Harney - Algebra - 1840 - 298 pages
...the substance/lnlmersed weigh less than an equal bulk of the fluid, its tendency to -rise, will be equal to the difference between its weight and the weight of an equal bulk of the Sflttid:; and, it will require ihat additional weight to present its m&igv':.i •»» ••'•'... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1852 - 152 pages
...heated air thus formed has a certain buoyancy or tendency to ascend into the atmosphere, proportional to the difference between its weight and the weight of an equal column of common air. This difference will be so much the greater as the column has greater magnitude... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1854 - 150 pages
...heated air thus formed has a certain buoyancy or tendency to ascend into the atmosphere, proportional to the difference between its weight and the weight of an equal column of common air. This difference will be so much the greater as the column has greater magnitude... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...difference -would give the weight of the cargo. As the buoyancy of a body thus depends on the relation between its weight and the weight of an equal bulk of the liquid, the same body will be more or less buoyant, according to the density of the liquid in which... | |
 | Aide-mémoire - 1862 - 506 pages
...heated air thus formed has a certain buoyaney or tendeney to ascend into the atmosphere, proportional to the difference between its weight and the weight of an equal column of common air. This difference will be so much the greater as the column has greater magnitnde... | |
 | Military art and science - 1862 - 966 pages
...heated air thus formed has a certain buoyancy or tendency to ascend into the atmosphere, proportional to the difference between its weight and the weight of an equal column of common air. This difference will be so much the greater as the column has greater magnitude... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 848 pages
...equal diffusion of the one through the other. As the buoyancy of a body thus depends on the relation between its weight and the weight of an equal bulk of the liquid, the same body will be more or less buoyant, according to the density of tbe liquid in which... | |
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of them that weigh equally in air, and noting the weight loft by each. 11. A body defcends in a fluid that is fpecifically lighter, but afcends in a fluid that is fpecifically heavier, with a force equal to the difference between its weight and the weight... 
