 | David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...PROBLEM 3. To find the Specific Gravity of a Body. 1. If the body be heavier than water, weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water. Then state the question thus ; Lead . 1132j 1177 Rain Water ... 1000 Fine Copper .. . 9000 Pitch 1150 Oak... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...the Specific Gravity of a Body. 288. CASE I. — When the body is heavier than -water : weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water. Then, by corol. 6, prop. 57, / = - -, where B is the weight of the body B — b out of water, b its weight... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 442 pages
...To find the Specific Gravity of a Body. CASE 1. When the body is heavier than water, weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference, which will he the weight lost in water. Then say, As the weight lost in water, Is to the whole weight, So is the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 680 pages
...To find the Specific Gravity of a Body. CASE 1. When the body is heavier than water, weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water. Then say, As the weight lost in water, Is to the whole weight. So is the specific gravity of water, To the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 656 pages
...of a body. 251. CASE i. — Whtn the body is heavier than water : weigh it both in water ;m<l out nf water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water. Then, by corol. 6, BMJ art. 250, * = , where B is the weight of the body out of B ^~— o water, 6 its weight... | |
 | Samuel YOUNG (of Manchester.) - 1833 - 272 pages
...the specific gravity of a body. Case 1. When the body is heavier than water. RULE. Weigh it both in and out of water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water; then say, As the weight lost in water L^ whole weight. Specific gravity of water r^ specific gravity of... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1834 - 182 pages
...To find the specific gravity of a body. Rule — When the body is heavier than water weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference which will be the weight \6st in water. Then, as the weight iost in water is to the whole or absolute weight, so is the specific... | |
 | Frederic A. Adams - Arithmetic - 1846 - 230 pages
...Gravity. The specific gravity of a body, is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of water. To find the specific gravity of a body heavier than...water. Weigh the body in water, and out of water, and find the difference in the weight ; then, as the difference in the weight is to the weight out of water,... | |
 | James Wharton - 1847 - 224 pages
...weight. Ans. 3-8 Ibs. 13. The diameter of an iron shot is 5-54 inches ; what is its weight. Ans. 24 Ibs. To find the Specific Gravity of a Body heavier than Water. Weigh the body first in water, and afterwards in the open air ; the difference will give the weight lost in water,... | |
 | D. M. Knapen - Measurement - 1849 - 300 pages
...cubic foot of any body be 5 times the weight of a cubic foot of water, its specific gravity is 5, &c. To find the specific gravity of a body heavier than water: — Weigh the body in the air, and then in water, and divide its weight in the air by the difference between its weight in... | |
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When the body is heavier than water, weigh it both in water and out of water, and take the difference, which will be the weight lost in water. Then say, As the weight lost in water, Is to the whole weight. 
