 ... branch, having divisions which correspond to parts of equal volume. The graduation of both scales begins from the same horizontal line through 0, 0. Mercury is first poured in at the extremity of the long branch, and by inclining the apparatus to...  Mechanics, hydrostatics and pneumatics - Page 167by Augustin Privat-Deschanel - 1884Full view - About this book
 | John Farrar - Dynamics - 1825 - 492 pages
...to H, drawing the horizontal line FG, we should find the difference GH of the two columns exac.tly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the observation ; so that the air contained in the space CF would be pressed by the weight of the atmosphere... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 630 pages
...to //, drawing the horizontal line FG, we should find the difference GH of the two columns exactly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the observation ; so that the air contained in the space CF would be pressed by the weight of the atmosphere... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1868 - 886 pages
...shown in the figure. If the height of the mercurial column, (.'A. be measured, it will be found exactly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the experiment. The pressure of the column CA is therefore equal to an atmosphere, which, with the pi~ joe atmospheric... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - Physics - 1872 - 552 pages
...figure 107, and if the height of the mercurial column, CA, be now measured, it will be found exactly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the experiment. The pressure of the column CA is therefore equal to an atmosphere, which, with the atmospheric pressure... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1872 - 588 pages
...figure 107, and if the height of the mercurial column, CA, be now measured, it will be found exactly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the experiment. The pressure of the column CA is therefore equal to an atmosphere, which, with the atmospheric pressure... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1876 - 1124 pages
...other by the side of the short branch, having divisions which correspond to parts of equal volume. The graduation of both scales begins from the same horizontal...three times the height of the barometer; that is, that tincompressed air exerts a pressure equal respectively to that of three or four atmospheres. This experi-... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1876 - 266 pages
...other by the side of the short branch, having divisions which correspond to parts of equal volume. The graduation of both scales begins from the same horizontal...volume of the air to one-third or onefourth of the orknnal volume, it will be found that O the difference of level is respectively two or three times... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1881 - 266 pages
...Jong branch, and by inclining the apparatus to either side, and cautiously adding more of the-liquid if required, the mercury can be made to stand at the...poured in so as to reduce the volume of the air to one- third or onefourth of the original volume, it will be found that the difference of level is respectively... | |
 | 1882 - 486 pages
...The difference of the heights of the mercury in the two legs is then read off. If this is found to be equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the experiment, the air in the short leg of the tube must be subjected to double the atmospheric pressure. This proves... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - Physics - 1886 - 1054 pages
...shown in • 146. If the height of the mercurial column, CA, be measured, it will be -•'i exactly equal to the height of the barometer at the time of the experi"••-•.. The pressure of the column CA is therefore equal to an atmosphere h, with the atmospheric... | |
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