Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
bottle, and presseddown upon the water, the pressure Avill betransmitted to the molecules in contact withit; these molecules Avill press upon those nextin position, and so on, from molecule to mole-cule, in every direction, until the pressure isfinally transmitted to every point of the in-terior… … 78 HYDROSTATICS. Fig. surface of the vessel is equal to that upon a square inch of thecork. The direction of the pressure is at every Y>ointperjyendicula? to tliesurface of the vessel, as shown by the arrows. This law of transmission of pressure holds good irrespective ofthe shape and size of…
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