Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 262
is in equilibrium. It is different, however, with the pressure on the two horizon-tal bases. The pressure exerted on the base d is, by (126), equalto the weight of the liquid cylinder represented by e g, and thepressure on the base c to the weight of the liquid cylinder h i.There is, therefore, an… … Fig. 231. 238 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. (137.) This demonstration may readily be extended to a bodyof any form whatsoever. Let s ss be the body, and ox,oy,o z three co-ordinate axes perpendicular with each other, to whichwe can refer position. The pressure exerted by a liquid on any infinitely small…
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