SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. The Franklin Elementary Algebra - Page 151by Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - 1881 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Renwick - Mechanics - 1832 - 560 pages
...is the depth of its centre of gravity beneath the surface. CHAPTER IV. OF SPECIFIC GRAVITIES. 337. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body. In this general sense, it is equivalent to density, which is the relation... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water ; and the specific gravity of an aeriform body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of air But a ratio is expressed by a vulgar fraction, whose numerator is the antecedent and... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water; and the specific gravity of an aeriform body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of air. But a ratio is expressed by a vulgar fraction, whose numerator is the antecedent, and... | |
| George Leonard (Jr.) - Arithmetic - 1839 - 362 pages
...Answer, a cubic pile 8 ft. square. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. LESSON 182. The specific gravity of any substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of fresh water ; thus, if the substance weighs 2 oz., and an equal bulk of water 1 oz., its specific gravity... | |
| George Leonard (jr.) - Arithmetic - 1841 - 350 pages
...Ans. a cubic pile 8 ft. square. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. LESSON 191. The specific gravity of any substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of fresh water ; thus, if the substance weighs 2 oz., and an equal bulk of water 1 oz., its specific gravity... | |
| George Leonard - Arithmetic - 1841 - 356 pages
...Ans. a cubic pile 8 ft. square. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. LESSON 191. The specific gravity of any substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of fresh water ; thus, if the substance weighs 2 oz., and an equal bulk of water 1 oz., its specific gravity... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 618 pages
...ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water; and the specific gravity of an aeriform body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of air. But a ratio is expressed by a vulgar fraction, whose numerator is the antecedent, and... | |
| D. M. Knapen - Measurement - 1849 - 300 pages
...will weigh any number of pounds from 1 to the sum of the weights. 1 68. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF BODIES. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of the same volume of some other body assumed as a standard. Pure water being the standard commonly assumed,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...weight of its own bulk of water above its weight is greater. 661. The buoyancy of a solid depends on the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of the liquid. — The support, whether partial or total, which a solid sustains from a liquid in which... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1851 - 492 pages
...solids and liquids, and common air for the gases. Therefore, the specific gravity of a solid or a liquid body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water ; and the specific gravity of an aeriform body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight... | |
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