Natural philosophy, tr. and ed. from Cours élémentaire de physique by E. Atkinson1884 |
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... weight of 40 or 50 pounds . The weight which thus represents the intensity of a force is determined by means of the dynamometer . There are several forms of this instrument , one of the simplest being that represented in fig . 9. It ...
... weight of 40 or 50 pounds . The weight which thus represents the intensity of a force is determined by means of the dynamometer . There are several forms of this instrument , one of the simplest being that represented in fig . 9. It ...
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... weight of bodies ( fig . 9 ) , and is known as the steelyard . When forces are once measured or expressed as weights , they may be represented as to their intensity by means of a line which A Fig . 9 . Fig . 10 . indicates their ...
... weight of bodies ( fig . 9 ) , and is known as the steelyard . When forces are once measured or expressed as weights , they may be represented as to their intensity by means of a line which A Fig . 9 . Fig . 10 . indicates their ...
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... weight of one holds the other in equi- librium . The bodies which we consider ordinarily to be in a state of rest , are really in a state of equilibrium . For instance , when a body rests on a table , there is equilibrium between the ...
... weight of one holds the other in equi- librium . The bodies which we consider ordinarily to be in a state of rest , are really in a state of equilibrium . For instance , when a body rests on a table , there is equilibrium between the ...
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... weight P the resistance , while C is the fulcrum . A lever of the second kind has the resistance between the power and the fulcrum as in fig . 20 . A lever of the third kind is one in which the power is applied between the resistance ...
... weight P the resistance , while C is the fulcrum . A lever of the second kind has the resistance between the power and the fulcrum as in fig . 20 . A lever of the third kind is one in which the power is applied between the resistance ...
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... weight . Fig . 23 . The consideration of this kind of lever explains why a finger , caught near the hinge of a shutting door , is so severely crushed . The third kind of lever is less frequently met with . The pedals used in pianos and ...
... weight . Fig . 23 . The consideration of this kind of lever explains why a finger , caught near the hinge of a shutting door , is so severely crushed . The third kind of lever is less frequently met with . The pedals used in pianos and ...
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Página 59 - Pressure exerted anywhere upon a mass of liquid is transmitted undiminished in all directions, and acts with the same force on all equal surfaces and in a direction at right angles to those surfaces. To get a clearer idea of the truth of this principle, let us conceive a
Página 90 - The unit of the measure of capacity is the litre or cubic decimetre. The unit of weight is the gramme, which is the weight of a cubic centimetre of distilled water at 4° C. The kilogramme contains 1,000 grammes, or is the weight of a decimetre of distilled water at 4° C. The gramme equals 15-443 grains.
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Página 115 - It is in England commonly called Boyle's law, and, on the Continent, Mariotte's law. It is as follows :— ' The temperature remaining the same, the -volume of a given quantity of gas is inversely as the pressure which it bears? This law
Página 306 - calculated that if the total quantity of heat which the earth receives from the sun in the course of a year were employed to melt ice, it would be capable of melting a layer of ice all round the earth of 35 yards in thickness.
Página 537 - propounded a most ingenious theory, based on the analogy which exists between solenoids and magnets, by which all magnetic phenomena may be referred to electrodynamical principles. Instead of attributing magnetic phenomena to the existence of two fluids, Ampere assumed that each individual molecule of a magnetic substance is traversed by a closed electric current.
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Página 307 - Faraday calculated that the average amount of heat radiated in a day on each acre of ground in the latitude of London is equal to that which would be produced by the combustion of sixty sacks of coal.