 | Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - Physics - 1881 - 342 pages
...a cask, for example, filled with water, and having a long narrow tube tightly fitted into its top. If water is poured into the tube, there will be a...height is equal to that of the water in the tube. The pressure may be made as great as we please ; by means of a mere thread of water forty feet high, Pascal... | |
 | Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - Physics - 1881 - 544 pages
...will be found that each will have to be filled to exactly the same height to displace the plate a. is poured into the tube, there will be a pressure...height is equal to that of the water in the tube. The pressure may be made as great as we please ; by means of a mere thread of water forty feet high, Pascal... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1881 - 266 pages
...necessary to raise the Piston. — The force which must be expended in order to raise the piston, is equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is that to which the water is raised. Let S be the section... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Physics - 1883 - 296 pages
...and from n in the direction of in, are equal and opposite. Now these pressures are respectively equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the supposed section, and whose height is the distance from the center of gravity of this section to the... | |
 | Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - Physics - 1884 - 538 pages
...a cask, for example, filled with water, and having a long narrow tube tightly fitted into its top. If water is poured into the tube, there will be a...height is equal to that of the water in the tube. The pressure may be made as great as we please ; by means of a mere thread of water forty feet high, Pascal... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1884 - 282 pages
...necessary to raise the Piston. — The force which must be expended in order to raise the piston, is equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is that to which the water is raised. Let S be the section... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Fluid mechanics - 1885 - 324 pages
...tension of the rod when the piston is ascending = gpA-MQ. That is, the tension of the rod is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and whose height is the height of the water in the barrel above the level of the... | |
 | Charles Slagg - Hydraulic engineering - 1888 - 384 pages
...when its head accumulates against the float-board when the wheel is held still. This force is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the immersed float-board, and whose height is that due to the velocity of the current. That... | |
 | Edward Richard Shaw - Physics - 1891 - 342 pages
...seventy -eight inches of water in it ? The pressure upon the side of a tank, or reservoir, is equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the surface pressed upon, and whose height is the depth of the water to the middle point of that surface.... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1893 - 670 pages
...inch of water, or 0.036 pound, to uphold it. The pressure of running water against a surface is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the pressed surface and whose height is the height due to the velocity. If a be the edge of... | |
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