 Therefore the specific gravity of a solid or a liquid body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water...  Book III - Page 84by George William Myers - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...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 which it is compared as a standard.... | |
 | H. Bryant - 1881 - 574 pages
...16000 miles ? 2. How far must it be elevated to weigh 5 Ib. ! 778. 1. The Specific Gravity (sg) of any substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. (See Table, Art. 941.) 2. The standard for solids... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Chemistry - 1881 - 648 pages
...compared with that in some other body assumed as the unit of weight The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some substance which has been selected as the standard. Solids and liquids are always compared... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Algebra - 1881 - 304 pages
...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 bulk of water L2 ji — opcciiic o;rji-vit.V... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Fluid mechanics - 1885 - 324 pages
...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. The density of a body has been defined... | |
 | Geology - 1920 - 128 pages
...the ease with which it is scratched with a knife blade. Specific gravity. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. The weight of water (62.5 pounds per cubic foot) is taken as one. Thus metallic lead... | |
 | John Bascombe Lock - Forces and couples - 1888 - 278 pages
...centigrade, at which temperature pure water has its greatest density. The average density of any given body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of the standard substance. 115. DEF. A body is said to be of uniform density when the average... | |
 | Wallace Clement Sabine - Physical measurements - 1893 - 152 pages
...surface. 5. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF A SOLID BY NICHOLSON'S HYDROMETER. The specific gravity of a solid is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. It may be determined by means of the hydrometer, by weighing the solid first in the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Schuster, Charles Herbert Lees - Physics - 1896 - 272 pages
...1-67 -1-21 = '46 grms. (3) To calculate the specific gravity. The specific gravity of a body being the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of water, is calculated by the formula : ,, ... . Weight of the body Specific gravity = w . , , Ja. ,.,-/Weight... | |
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