Elements of mechanics: for the use of colleges, academies, and high schools (1859)
Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr · leaf 258
proportional to their specificgravities, we have, W — w : W — wf : : s : 1; or, W — w — sW — sw\ .-. W — — • 1 — s This weight should be used, instead of the weight in air. To determine the Specific Gravity of Liquids. 162. First Method.—Take a vial with a narrow neck,and weigh it; fill it with the… … MECHANICS OF LIQUIDS. 255 volumes of the liquid and of water. Divide the former bythe latter, and the quotient will be the specific gravitysought. Second Method.—Take a heavy body, that will sink bothin the liquid and in water, and which will not be acted uponby either ; determine its loss of…
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