 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...hydrostatical paradox, which is of vast importance in this science: viz. That any quantity of fluid however small may be made to balance any other quantity however large. C. If to the wide vessel AB, Fig. 4, a tube 0 D be attached, and water be poured into either of them,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...bydrostatical paradox, which is of vast importance in this science : viz. That any quantity of fluid however small may be made to balance any other quantity however large. 6. If to the wide vessel AB, Fig. 4, a tube CD be attached, and water be poured into either of them,... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 816 pages
...the quantity of fluid employed. This has given rise to the hydrostatic paradox — "that any given quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any other quantity, however large." Also the hydrostatic bellows depend on the same principle. In the cut, A and B are two circular boards... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1836 - 814 pages
...the quantity of fluid employed. This has given rise to the hydrostatic paradox — " that any given quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any other quantity, however large." Also the hydrostatic bellows depend on the same principle. In the cut, A and В are two circular boards... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...whether it rises to the given height in a broad open funnel, or is carried up in a slender tube. Hence, any quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any quantity, however great. This is called the Fig. 68. hydrostatic paradox. The experiment is usually... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...whether it rises to the given height in a broad open funnel, or is carried up in a slender tube. Hence, any quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any quantity, however great. This is called the hydrostatic paradox. The experiment is usually performed... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...hydrostatical paradox, which is of vast importance in this science; viz. — that any quantity of fluid, however small, may be made to balance any other quantity, however large. And yet there is nothing more paradoxical in it than that one pound at the long end of a lever should... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 618 pages
...whether it rises to the given height in a broad open funnel, or is carried up in a slender tube. Hence, any quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any quantity, however great. This is called the hydrostatic paradox. The experiment is usually performed... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1846 - 456 pages
...paradox, "an assertion contrary to appearances :" now the assertion which I am to refer you to is, that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to balance any quantity, however large. That a pound of water, for instance, should, without any mechanical advantage,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1851 - 492 pages
...whether it rises to the given height in a broad open funnel, or is carried up in a slender tube. Hence, any quantity of water, however small. may be made to balance any quantity, however great. This Pig. 82. is called the hydrostatic paradox. The experiment is usually... | |
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With a given base and height, therefore, the pressure is the same whether the vessel is larger or smaller above, whether its figure is regular or irregular, whether it rises to the given height in a broad open funnel, or is carried up in a slender tube.... 
