Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 134
water will rise between the two plates in theinverse ratio of the distance which separates them. The height of theascent for any given distance is half what it would be in a tube whose dia-meter is equal to the distance between the plates. If the parallel plates are immersed in mercury, a… … Fig. 103. Fig. 105. dipped into a liquid which wets them- the liquid will rise between them.The elevation will be greatest at the line of contact of the plates, andfrom hence gradually less, the surface taking the form of an equilateralhyperbola. If a drop of water be placed within a conical glass…
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