A course of experiments in physical measurement (1897)
Whiting, Harold, d. 1895 · Boston, D.C. Heath and Co. · leaf 46
tituted for a known weight of brassin air. The errors committed with a Nicholsons hy-drometer depend upon the peculiarities of the instru-ment itself, rather than upon the quantities weighed.We are in fact liable to the same error in weighingone bicycle ball as in weighing ten. The proportionwhich… … 16 NICHOLSONS HYDROMETER. [Exp 4. and 4 is a good example of the accuracy gained bythe method of multiplication (§ 39). ^ 12. Corrections Disregarded in Experiment 4. —In the last experiment we disregarded the effects ofthe buoyancy of air on the sUsel balls and on thebrass weights, because these…
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