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 79
hard. This is effected bythe use of agate knife-edges. And, further, the pointer is made long, sinceits elongation renders a given deflection more perceptible by increasing thearc which its end describes. The sensitiveness of a balance is expressed by the ratio of the smallestweight, which will… … Fig. 5 such that when charged with a kilogramme (1,000 grms.) in each scale anexcess of a tenth of a milligramme (jo^o of ^ bi™-) i either scale producesa very perceptible deflection of the index. 62 Gravitatio7t and Molecular Attraction. [74- In order to protect the balance from air-currents,…
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