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Page 161 - Principle states that a body wholly or partially immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.
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Page 527 - ... round one set of coils of the galvanometer, the other part of the current being made to flow through the known resistances and then round the other set of coils in the opposing direction. When we have succeeded in matching the unknown resistance by one equal to it from amongst the known resistances, the currents in the two branches will be equal, and the needle of the differential galvanometer will show no deflexion.
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Page 163 - To Find the Density of a Solid Heavier than Water. — The most common way of determining the density of such a body, if it is insoluble in water, is to find its weight in air (w); find its weight when immersed in water («,'); divide the weight in air by the loss of weight in water.
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| Title | School Physics: A New Text-book for High Schools and Academies Avery's physical science series, Elroy McKendree Avery |
| Author | Elroy McKendree Avery |
| Publisher | Sheldon, 1895 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 608 pages |
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