 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...Required the depth and breadth necessary to enable the balance to weigh J a ton. Ans. Depth, V8 X 3 X 1120^-238=4.834in. Breadth, .604in. 14. What should...GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. The standard... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 398 pages
...and breadth necessary to enable the balance to weigh J a ton. Ans. Depth, 1/8 x 3 x 1120 -r238 =4.834in. Breadth, .604in. 14. What should be the depth...GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. Tho standard... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 346 pages
...to signify the inverse of density, that is, the volume of unit of mass of a substance. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC GRAVITY. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its density to that of some standard substance, generally water. Since the specific gravity of a body... | |
 | William Rossiter - Mechanics - 1873 - 160 pages
...lighter it will sink until it has displaced a volume of water equal in weight to itself. (Page 69.) Specific Gravity. — The specific Gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. It is determined by weighing it with an equal... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...at an angle of 45 degrees, struck the earth in 8 seconds : what vertical height did it reach ? II. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The Specific Gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body (usually pure distilled water), with... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Algebra - 1881 - 304 pages
...crown, on the supposition that no other metal was used in the alloy. What should have been his results ? Specific Gravity. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of pure water. Weight of a body .„ ., Weight of an equal... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Fluid mechanics - 1885 - 324 pages
...the inclination 6, that the parallelopiped may float in indifferent equilibrium. Ans. 0 = 45° 29. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard of comparison.... | |
 | Leroy J. Blinn - Alloys - 1891 - 358 pages
...application to the determination of the capacities and dimensions of cylindrical vessels. (The Metal Worker.) SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to an equal volume of some other body assumed as a conventional standard. The standard usually... | |
 | James Clarke Foye - Chemistry - 1898 - 196 pages
...temperature been 10° and the height of the barometer 30-2 inches ? Ans. 1584-84 cubic inches. VI. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some substance taken as a standard. Pure water at its... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1910 - 644 pages
...centimeter. If m denotes mass, v volume, and d density, then jmm d=— , v = — , vd and m = vd. (4-3) 155. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the mass of any volume of it to the mass of the same volume of pure water at 4° C. Specific gravity... | |
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SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. 
