Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 46
nt, just large enough to admitthe passage of the string. The edge of the plate is applied to themasonry, as shown in Fig. 22, and if the plumb-bob just touches thewall, it must be vertical. Weight. 39. The Weight of a body is the pressure which it What are antipodes? What is a Horizontal Line, or… … Fig. 22. The weight of a body is due to the force of gravity, acting uponall of its particles, but it must not be confounded with the force ofgravity. Weight is only the effect of gravity when resisted; whengravity is unresisted it produces quite another effect, that is, motion. At the same place…
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