Hydrostatics and Elementary Hydrokinetics

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Clarendon Press, 1892 - Hydrodynamics - 424 pages
 

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Page 23 - The specific gravity of any homogeneous solid or liquid means, in its ordinary employment, the ratio of the weight of any volume of the substance to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water at the temperature o° C.
Page 375 - The ratio of the area of the vena contracta to that of the orifice AB is called the coefficient of contraction.
Page 25 - But when a chemical combination takes place between any of the substances, the volume of the mixture is not equal to the sum of the volumes mixed — as when sulphuric acid is mixed with water.
Page 31 - DO, and dividing the sum of these products by the sum of the bodies, A, B, C, and D.
Page 130 - When a body floats freely in a fluid the weight of the body is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Page 353 - We shall begin by investigating the form of the surface of a liquid in contact with a broad vertical plane, or wall.
Page 389 - B being at the top of the cylinder ; let r and h be the radius and height of the cylinder, and c the height to which the cylinder, when at rest, is filled.
Page 116 - Also, the weight of the body must be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Page 161 - If r is the radius of the base and h the height, find the condition for stability.
Page 239 - In other words the potential energy of 772 pounds elevated one foot above the ground is equivalent to the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 55° F.

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