A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 18
uring the length of anobject, place it between the branches PA and QC, and gentlypress the slider against it. Then note the reading on thevernier. The calipers may also be used to measure the width of anopening in a tube, or other object, provided it is greater thanthe total thickness of EP and FQ… … Fig. 6- together, which may be found by means of another instrument.It will be a useful exercise for the student to test, at varioustimes, the accuracy of the calipers, by means of a standardinstrument, one of which is shewn in Fig. 6. In this standard the object to be measured is placed betweenthe…
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