| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...and, I nope, thoroughly impressed upon your memory, by the conversations we have subsequently had, on astronomy. It will now be necessary for me to give...mechanical properties of fluids — a science which, when applied tojiquids, is divided into two parts, hydrostatics and hydraulics.! /Hydrostatics, treats... | |
| Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...SECTION I. — On the Mechanical Properties of Fluids. THE science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. A fluid is a substance which...scarcely sensible of meeting with any resistance. Fluids, generally speaking, are bodies of less density than solids. From the slight cohesion of their... | |
| 1832 - 650 pages
...Properties of Fluids. THE science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. Л fluid is a substance which yields to the slightest...scarcely sensible of meeting with any resistance. Fluids, generally speaking, are bodies of less density than solids. From the slight cohesion of their... | |
| Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...I. — OĢ the Mechanical Properties of Fluids. THE science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. A fluid is a substance which...pressure. If you dip your hand into a basin of water, yon are scarcely sensible of meeting1 with any resistance. Fluids, generally speaking, are bodies of... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...LESSON XIII. ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS. The science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. A fluid is a substance which yields to the slightest pressure. Fluids are divided into two classes, distinguished by the names of liquids and elastic fluids, or gases,... | |
| Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...unaffected. ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS. The science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. A fluid is a substance which yields to the slightest pressure. Fluids are divided into two classes, distinguished by the names of liquids, and elastic fluids or gases,... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...LESSON XIII. ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS. THE science of the mechanical properties of fluids is called Hydrostatics. A fluid is a substance which yields to the slightest pressure. Fluids are divided into two classes, distinguished by the names of liquids and elastic fluids, or gases... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...illustrated, and, I hope, thoroughly impressed upon your memory, by the conversation we have subsequently had on astronomy. It will now be necessary for me to give...scarcely sensible of meeting with any resistance. -•' ~>n .S'.r' ' EMILY. The attraction of cohesion, you have told us, is less powerful in fluids... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1858 - 632 pages
...illustrated, and, I hope, thoroughly impressed upon your memory, by the conversation we have subsequently had on astronomy. It will now be necessary for me to give...any resistance. EMILY. The attraction of cohesion, you have told us, is less powerful in fluids than in solidS. MRS. B. Fluids, generally speaking, are... | |
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