Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 138
om-ponents ; the attractions of the former will compensate each other. Butthe attractions represented by the molecules within the hemisphere, beneaththe surface, are not so compensated, and consequently the latter will exercisea considerable pull towards the interior. Consider, again, a particle,… … 133] Tension of the Free Surface of Liquids 121 within ^i.V/r^/will neutralise each other. But the segment rt^ remains uncom-pensated, and exerts a pull similar to, though weaker than, that which actson tlic molecule a. The molecule c finally is surrounded uniformly by its adjacent ones, andtheir…
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