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 93
S. Principle of Archimedes. 86. If a body is submerged in a fluid, it will be pressedin all directions, but not equally. To illustrate, suppose a cubeimmersed in water, as shown inFig. 58. The lateral faces, a andb, will be equally pressed and inopposite directions. The same willbe true for the… … (86.) Are submerged bodies pressed equally in all directions? Illustrate indetail. PRESSURE ON SUBMERGED BODIES. 91 be pressed upwards by a force equal to the weight of a column ofthe liquid whose cross-section is that of the cube, and whose heightis the distance of c from the surface of the fluid.…
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