 | Carl Friedrich Peschel, Karl Friedrich Peschel - Physics - 1854 - 314 pages
...the weight of the 100 drops. The pressurt of a fluid on the base of the containing vessel is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the base of the vessel and its height to the distance of the surface of the fluid from the base. From this... | |
 | William Walton, Charles Frederick Mackenzie - Education - 1854 - 266 pages
...to the weight of a column of the fluid, the base of which is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the fluid. A cylindrical vessel is filled with equal masses of two incompressible... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1854 - 284 pages
...to the weight of a column of the fluid, the base of which is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the fluid. A cylindrical vessel is filled with equal masses of two incompressible... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...to the weight of a column of the fluid, the base of which is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the fluid. The inclinations of the axis of a submerged solid cylinder to the vertical... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...plane, or on the same level. 2. The pressure perpendicular to a surface immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area A of the surface, and whose altitude is the perpendicular depth of the centre of gravity of... | |
 | Henry Moseley - Architecture - 1856 - 742 pages
...the weight of a prism of the fluid whose base is equal in area to the surface pressed, and its height to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed. — Hydroiiaticf, Art. 81. Let— =<r; then, if the fluid be water, a represents the ^ i specific gravity... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Science - 1856 - 598 pages
...vessel in which it is contained, is quite independent of the form of the vessel, and is always equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the bottom df 'the vessel, and sliose height is the vertical distance from the bottom to the surface... | |
 | Henry Latham - 1857 - 390 pages
...equal to the weight of a column of fluid, the base of which is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the fluid. How does this differ from the resultant pressure of the fluid on the... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1859 - 368 pages
...surface is the base. Hence, the vertical component of the pressure on any element of the surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the horizontal projection of the element, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the element from... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 pages
...plane, or on the same level. 2. The pressure perpendicular to a surface immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area A of the surface, and whose altitude is the perpendicular depth of the centre of gravity of... | |
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BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
