Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 268
fwater displaced by the body shall be always the same. (142.) Stable and Unstable Equilibrium. — When the cen-tres of pressure and gravity are in the same vertical, there will bea condition of equilibrium, but this equilibrium may be eitherstable, unstable, or neutral. The equilibrium is said to be… … Fig. 238. 244 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. into a new condition of equilibrium; and it is said to be neutral,when it will remain at rest in any position indifferently. The condition of a floating body is always stable when thecentre of gravity is below the centre of pressure. The truthof this statement is an…
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