 ... specific gravity — as applied to wood, the ratio of the ovendry weight of a sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sample at some specific moisture content, as green, air-dry, or ovendry.  A Textbook on Mining Engineering - Page 1541900Full view - About this book
 | George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1873 - 752 pages
...length is the height of the cylinder. Clearly, therefore, the cylinder is pressed upwards by a force equal to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the cylinder. (Compare Displacement.) Uranium. A metallic element not well known in the pure state.... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1897 - 672 pages
...of discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. Rule II. — The work done in one stroke of a pump is equal to...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. A little consideration will make Rule II evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 25 feet;... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1899 - 722 pages
...of discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. Rule II. — The work done in one stroke of a pump is equal to...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. A little consideration will make Rule II evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 2,5 feet... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1899 - 596 pages
...plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. Rule II. — The work done iit one stroke of a pump is equal to the weight of a volume...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. A little consideration will make Rule II evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 25 feet;... | |
 | William Watson - Physics - 1899 - 990 pages
...represents the loss of weight of the block when immersed in water, and this, by the principle of Archimedes, is equal to the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the block. Hence, knowing the volume of the block, ie the volume of the water displaced, the... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Coal mines and mining - 1900 - 860 pages
...the point of discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. 2220. Rule. — The work done in one stroke of a pump is...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. 2221. A little consideration will make this evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 25 feet;... | |
 | Agriculture - 1902 - 542 pages
...of discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. Rule II. — The work done in one stroke of a pump is equal to...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. A little consideration will make Rule II evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 25 feet... | |
 | Graphic statics - 1902 - 544 pages
...discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. Rule II. — The ivork done in one stroke of a pump is equal to the weight...plus the work necessary to overcome the resistances. A little consideration will make Rule II evident. Suppose that the height of the suction is 25 feet... | |
 | Edward Sherman Gould - Hydrostatics - 1903 - 166 pages
...of the volume of water displaced, and as the body has displaced its own volume, the loss of weight is equal to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the body. Therefore if JT= weight of the body in air, and 1C' = its weight in water, then in formula... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1905 - 696 pages
...the point of discharge, plus the work necessary to overcome the friction and other resistances. 2220. Rule. — The work done in one stroke of a pump is...a volume of water equal to the volume displaced by tlie piston during thc stroke, multiplied by the total vertical distance in feet through which the... | |
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