Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 250
ssed by the weight of the liquidabove them, and hence must be ex-erting pressure in every direction,and just as much upward pressureas downward pressure. If, then, weimmerse in the liquid a cylindricalbody, such as c d, Pig. 221, it is plainthat the particles of water in contactwith the base, d, of… … 226 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. pressure, by the last section, is equal to the weight of a columnof liquid having the same base as the cylinder, and having aheight equal to the depth of the section below the surface of theliquid. (125.) Pressure on the Sides of a Vessel. — This same courseof reasoning may…
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