 | Alonzo Gray - Physics - 1850 - 422 pages
...whatever their form or capacity ; and also that the surface of a liquid at rest is always level. IV. A body immersed in any liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced, and hence by weighing bodies in air and tlien in water, their relative weights... | |
 | Chemistry - 1869 - 340 pages
...did not must have made an exceedingly gross error. Archimedes had proved that a body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid which it displaces, and this theorem applies here ; since in the case of a bladder of air... | |
 | Chemistry - 1869 - 668 pages
...did not must have made an exceedingly gross error. Archimedes had proved that a body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid which it displaces, and this theorem applies here ; since in the case of a bladder of air... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1869 - 200 pages
...important principle of hydrostatics, called the principle of Archimedes, namely, that a body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the quantity of liquid which it displaces. 12. If what I have here stated should be found difficult... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - 1870 - 286 pages
...known as the " Principle of Archimedes," runs to the following effect : — " Every body plunged into a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces." Everybody has verified this principle, and knows that objects are much... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - Balloon ascensions - 1870 - 244 pages
...known as the " Principle of Archimedes," runs to the following effect : — " Every body plunged into a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces." Everybody has verified this principle, and knows that objects are much... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...heard, laid down the law, which has always since been known by his name, that a body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by it. Let us prove this. One cubic inch of water weighs about half an ounce (or... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - Physical instruments - 1873 - 216 pages
...solids when immersed in liquid 57 principle of Aruhimedes, viz. that every solid when immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid which it displaces . . . . 57 exhibition of differences in specific gravities 58 three liquids... | |
 | a. privat deschanel - 1873 - 1076 pages
...celebrated principle of Archimedes. It is often enunciated in the following form: Every body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced. This enunciation, though perhaps less correct than the former, is fundamentally... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1881 - 266 pages
...celebrated principle of Archimedes. It is often enunciated in the following form: Every body immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced. This enunciation, though perhaps less correct than the former, is fundamentally... | |
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Archimedes," runs to the following effect : — " Every body plunged into a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces. 
