Greenhill, G. (George), Sir, 1847-1927 · London and New York, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 310
wasoriginally perfect, and that the air which vitiates thevacuum was introduced as a small bubble, which atatmospheric pressure occupied a length AB of the tube. As the bubble PQ rises slowly and steadily in the tube. VACUUM OF A BAROMETER. 299 by the gradual transfer of mercury from above to… … Fig. 68. Fig. 69. If therefore P is projected horizontally to Pj, on to thesloping line GE (fig. 69), the corresponding point Qj willdescribe a hyperbola with the vertical and sloping linethrough E for asymptotes ; and the corresponding pointiJj will describe a rectangular hyperbola, with…
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