 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Edward Fisher Bamber - Mechanical engineering - 1873 - 368 pages
...cubic foot. III. The density of a substance is either the number of units of mass in an unit of volume, in which case it is equal to the heaviness, — or...specific gravity. In its application to gases, the term THE INTENSITY OP PRESSURE. 121 " Density" is often used to denote the ratio of the heaviness of a given... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Edward Fisher Bamber - Mechanical engineering - 1873 - 332 pages
...cubic foot. III. The density of a substance is either the number of units of mass in an unit of volume, in which case it is equal to the heaviness, — or...specific gravity. In its application to gases, the term THE INTENSITY OP PRESSURE. 121 " Density" is often used to denote the ratio of the heaviness of a given... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1880 - 688 pages
...foot. III. The Density of a substance is either the number of units of nuiit in an unit of volume, in which case it is equal to the heaviness. — or...an equal volume of water, in which case it is equal '.<•> the specific gravity. In its application to gases, the term " Density " is often used to denote... | |
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 408 pages
...their specific gravities. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of the mass of a certain volume of the substance to the mass of an equal volume of water at its temperature of maximum density. Hence if the specific gravity of a substance be known, the mass... | |
 | W. J. M. Rankine - 1883 - 666 pages
...cubic foot. III. The Density of a substance is either the number of units of mass in an unit of volume, in which case it is equal to the heaviness, — or...specific gravity. In its application to gases, the term il Density " is often used to denote the ratio of the heaviness of a given gas to that of air, at the... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Mechanics, Applied - 1892 - 300 pages
...case it is equal to the heaviness (ie, weight of unit volume of substance in unit weight) ; or it is the ratio of the mass of a given volume of the substance to the mass of an equal volume of water, i which case it is equal to the specific gravity. sequently sheets of gold are procurable of less than... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1893 - 710 pages
...the number of units of i/wiss in an unit of volume, in which case it is equal to the heaviness,—or the ratio of the mass of a given volume of the substance to the mass of tin equal volume of water, in which case it is equal to the specific gravity. In its application to... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - Matter - 1893 - 208 pages
...of the weight of the substance to the weight of an equal volume of water, or the ratio of the mass of the substance to the mass of an equal volume of water ; for, let W, M, w', M' be weights and masses respectively of a volume, V, of the substance and of... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Mechanics, Applied - 1894 - 350 pages
...case it is equal to the heaviness (ie, weight of unit volume of substance in unit weight) ; or it is the ratio of the mass of a given volume of the substance...in which case it is equal to the specific gravity. sequently sheets of gold are procurable of less than one-thousandth of an inch in thickness. Copper... | |
 | 1894 - 334 pages
...such as the unit extension of a spring made use of in the Jolly balance. The density of a substance is the ratio of the mass of a given volume of the substance to the volume which it occupies ; or in symbols D=~ (78) Since density is not an abstract number, its numerical... | |
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... the ratio of the mass of a given volume of the substance to the mass of an equal volume of water, in which case it is equal to the specific gravity. In its application to gases, the term THE INTENSITY OP PRESSURE. 121 
