 | Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Algebra - 1913 - 312 pages
...is usually 025 to 1000. This means that ^Д of the whole is silver. The specific gravity of a solid is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water under standard conditions. The birth rate per annum in a city is said to be 23 when the ratio... | |
 | Diana Clifford Kimber - 1914 - 566 pages
...Specific gravity. — By specific gravity is meant the comparison between the weight of a substance and the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. The standards usually referred to are air for gases, and water for liquids and solids. For instance,... | |
 | William Brandon Gordon - Mechanics - 1914 - 296 pages
...Eqs. (40) for the center of gravity. Ex. 369. The specific gravity of a body, or its relative density, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of standard water (distilled water at 4° C.). The principle of the buoyant effort gives a method of... | |
 | John Alexander Luman - Arithmetic - 1914 - 366 pages
...inches wide and 4 inches thick at the butt (the other end being a sharp edge)? The specific gravity (the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water) of gold is 19.26; a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 ounces avoirdupois; one pound avoirdupois... | |
 | Cast-iron - 1915 - 750 pages
...analysis, the specific gravities of substances are frequently used. The specific gravity of a material is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of pure water. A cubic foot of pure water weighs 62.425 pounds; therefore, if 1 cubic foot of a certain... | |
 | Augustus Orloff Thomas - Agricultural mathematics - 1916 - 296 pages
...find its volume in cubic miles. MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS SPECIFIC GRAVITY The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. 1. Explain why wood floats and why stone sinks in water. 2. Find the specific gravity of... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1916 - 1230 pages
...SPECIFIC GRAVITY, WEIGHT, AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS DEFINITIONS The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of pure water, at a standard temperature (62° P. = 16.670° C.). Some experimenters have used... | |
 | United States. Navy Department - Deep diving - 1916 - 224 pages
...such mixture is produced. Specific gravity The ratio of the weight of any rolume of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as the standard unit; relative density; this standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air... | |
 | Halsey Dunwoody - Graphic statics - 1917 - 384 pages
...two parts having equal pressures. Ex. 369. The specific gravity of a body, or its relative density,, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of standard water (distilled water at 4° C.). The principle of the buoyant, effort gives a method... | |
 | Halsey Dunwoody - Graphic statics - 1917 - 390 pages
...two parts having equal pressures. Ex. 369. The specific gravity of a body, or its relative density, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of standard water (distilled water at 4° C.). The principle of the buoyant effort gives a method of... | |
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The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. 
