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 53
ion those parts of the medium with which it is incontact, whereby it loses an equivalent amount of its own motion. This resistance increases with the surface of the moving body ; thus asoap-bubble or a snow-flake falls more slowly than does a drop of water ofthe same weight. It also increases with… … Fig. 31 The influence of this resistance may be illustrated by means of theapparatus represented in fig. 31, which consists of two vanes, W7ty, fixed to ahorizontal axis, xx^ to which is also attached a bobbin s. The rotation ofthe vanes is effected by means of the falling- of a weight attached to…
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