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action angle atmospheric pressure axis barometer barrel battery body Boyle's law called cell centimetres centre of gravity circuit coil column concave conductor copper cubic cubic centimetre cubic foot denote density direction distance electricity electrified electromotive force employed equal equilibrium expansion Find focal length friction gases given glass grammes Hence horizontal immersed inches incident index of refraction iron lens Leyden jar liquid machine magnet mass mercury metallic mirror mixture motion nearly needle negative normal number of vibrations observed opposite parallel particle perature piston plane plate pole portion position prism produced pulse quantity ratio reflected relative density resistance scale side sound specific gravity specific heat substance surface temperature thermal capacity thermometer tion tube unit valve vapour velocity velocity of sound vertical vessel vibrations per second volume wave-length waves weight wire zinc
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Page 27 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 18 - ... the lever, the wheel, and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw — and the effects resulting from their various combinations.
Page 72 - The height of the mercury in the tube above that in the cistern measures the difference between the pressure in the receiver and that in the external air.
Page 4 - The condition of equilibrium for three forces acting at a point is, that they be represented in magnitude and direction by the three sides of a triangle, taken one way round.
Page 151 - 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 22 - If the weight and the block 1 to which it is attached rise 1 inch, the next block rises 2 inches, the next 4, and the power moves through 8 inches. Thus, the work done by the power is equal to the work done upon the weight. In all this reasoning we neglect the weights of the blocks themselves; but it is not difficult to take them into account when necessary.