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 137
inner. 135. Cause of the curvature of liquid surfaces in contact with solids.The form of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid depends on therelation between the attraction of the solid for the liquid, and of the mutualattraction between the molecules of the liquid. Let 111 be a liquid… … the direction wF ; and by the attraction of the plate », which is exerted inthe direction m)i. According to the relative intensities of these forces, theirresultant can take three positions :— i. The resultant is in the direction of the vertical ;;zR (fig. no). In thiscase the surface m is plane…
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