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)
of the sides, and whose height is equal to one-luilf the depth of the liquid. 106. The total pressure on the bottom and sides of avessel.—This is equal to the weight of the liquid added to the sidepressure ; and as the lateral pressure on one side of a cubical vesselwould be o«e-half of the weight… … I HYDROSTATICS. 85 107. Figure 12.—Hydrostatic paradox.—This paradox isanother experimental proof that lic^uids press according to their heightand not their quantity. Fill a glass jar, T, with water, and balance it on a scale-beam with a Fig. 12.
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