 | William Nicholson - Astronomy - 1787 - 412 pages
...is, to weigh the fame fubftance in different fluids ; and becaufe the diminution it fuffers in weight is equal to the weight of a quantity ' 'of the fluid of the fame bulk, we thence obtain ' the weights of equal quantities of different fluids, and the fpecific gravities... | |
 | David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...gravities. 7. A body specifically heavier than a fluid, loses as much of its weight when immersed in it, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk or magnitude. Hence, since the specific gravities are as the absolute gravities under the... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...immerfed in a fluid that is fpecificalij lighter than the body, the body lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the fame bulk or magnitude. Therefore, the fpecific gravities of two bodies are as the abfolute gravities, under... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...«nd that of an equal bulk of the fluid. XII. A body sinks in a fluid «specifically heavier, •o far as that the weight of the body Is equal to the weight of л quantity of the fluid of the game bulk ev the part immersed. Hence, as the specific .gravity of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...that of an equal bulk of the fluid. XII. Л body sinks in a fluid specifically heavier, so far as Hint the weight of the body is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk ns the part immersed. Hence, as the specific gravity of the fluid, is to that of the body,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier fluid than in a lighter one,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so mucli of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier fluid than in a lighter one,... | |
 | Miles Bland - Hydrostatics - 1824 - 380 pages
...fluid : and let W' = the loss of weight sustained by the body when the temperature is t, and therefore equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same magnitude with the body. But the magnitude of the body becomes M . {l -{-El}, which therefore... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...body immersed in a fluid, which is specincally'ligater than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier fluid than in a lighter one,... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1834 - 370 pages
...gravities. 8. A body specifically heavier than a fluid, loses as much of its weight, when immersed in it, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk or magnitude ; if the body be of equal density with the fluid, it loses all its weight, and... | |
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A body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier fluid than in a lighter... 
