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)
to thebottom of the tube F by means ofa cord; then thrust the tube downinto the liquid, as shown, and letgo the string, and on the loAver sur-face of the false bottom N the up-ward pressure will be equal to thedownward pressure on an equal surfaceat the same depth. This is proved bythe fact, that… … 82 HYDROSTATICS. 101. Figure 9.—Downward pressure of liquids inde-pendent of shape and capacity of containing vessels.— The pressure on the horizontal base of vessels depends only on theFj(j 9 size of the surface pressed^ and its vertical distance be-low the upper surface of the-liquid. Or, the…
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