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 199
e in air, but willexactly balance it in vacuo. The principle of Archimedes is true for bodies in air ; all that has beensaid about bodies immersed in licjuids applies to them ; that is, that when abody is heavier than air it will sink, owing to the excess of its weight overthe buoyancy. If it is as… … 182 On Gases [196- in the atmosphere until it reaches a layer of the same density as its own.The force causing ascent is equal to the excess of the buoyancy over theweight of the body. This is the reason why smoke, vapours, clouds, and air-balloons rise in the air. It will be understood that by…
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