Key to Wentworth & Hill's Text-book of Physics

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Ginn & Company, 1898 - Physics - 169 pages
 

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Page 142 - The emf of a battery is 18 volts and its internal resistance 3 ohms. The difference of potential between its poles, when they are connected by a wire A, is 1 5 volts, and falls to 12 volts when A is replaced by another wire B.
Page 67 - ... find the specific heat of the nails. 23. Five hundred grams of lead shot at 99° are poured into a calorimeter which weighs 78 grams and contains 300 grams of water at 14°. The temperature of the water rises to 18.5°. The specific heat of the calorimeter is 0.1. Find the specific heat of lead. 24. To find the temperature of a furnace, a copper ball weighing 1 Ib. is put into the furnace, and after some time removed, and dropped into a bucket containing 20 Ib. of water at 15° C. The temperature...
Page 118 - The work done by a force acting obliquely on a moving body is measured by the product of the force and the distance through ivhich the body moves in the direction of the force.
Page 130 - If an electrified piece of metal is made to touch a gold-leaf electroscope, the leaves separate, and, on taking the metal away, they remain separate. But if the electrified metal is only brought near...
Page 65 - How many units of heat are required to raise the temperature of 10 oz. of platinum from 80° to 2,000° ? Ans. 38.88 BTU 2. In order to determine the specific heat of a certain alloy, a piece weighing 12J oz.
Page 21 - A stiff pole, 12 ft. long, sticks out horizontally from a vertical wall. It would break if 20 Ib.
Page 19 - A cord is attached to two fixed points, A and B, in the same horizontal line, and bears a ring weighing 10 Ibs. at C, so that ACB is a right angle ; find the tension in the cord.
Page 54 - We know now that the underlying principle is the same as in a mercurial barometer : it is the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the well that pushes the water up into the pump.
Page 21 - up" forces must equal the sum of the "down" forces, FI + F4 must equal F^ + F3 2. The sum of the moments tending to produce rotation in one direction must equal the sum of the moments tending to produce rotation in the opposite direction.
Page 139 - EMF force = 1'1, and an internal resistance = 3. If the poles of the battery are connected by a wire whose resistance = 240, what will be the strength of the current ? What will be the effect on the strength of the current of removing from the battery three of the cells, and replacing them with their poles inverted ? 25.

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