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 35
olume occupied by the air at at-mospheric pressure. When h is the differ-| ence between the heights of the two col-umns of mercury, let v be the volume ofthe air. The pressures, therefore, to whichthe air is subjected in the two cases are proportional to H, andH+h respectively. If the experiment is… … Fig. 19. BOYLES LAW. 25 BF may be filled with dry air before commencing the experi-ment, by first filling the two tubes with mercury, and thenletting it run out through the tap at the bottom of the metaltube, the air entering BF at the tap F after passing through adrying tube filled with calcium…
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