A Text-book of Physics: For Use in Secondary Schools

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J.B. Lippincott, 1906 - Physics - 420 pages
 

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Page 260 - When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, it is refracted so that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocities in the two media.
Page 123 - Specific gravity. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water.
Page 121 - The loss of weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, or a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.
Page 343 - Such an electromotive force as would cause a current of one ampere to flow through a resistance of one ohm.
Page 176 - Specific Heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of unit weight of the substance 1 deg.
Page 58 - Every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Page 115 - ... of such a vessel, is equal to the weight of a column of the liquid whose base is equal to the area of the side, and whose height is equal to one-half of the depth of the liquid 145 in the vessel.

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