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)
cube,and whose height is the distance from itslower face to the surface of the fluid. Thepressure on the upper face will be downward,and equal to the weight of a column of theliquid laterally as large as the cube, andwhose height equals the distance from thetop side of the cube to the surface of… … HTDEOSTA TICS. 91 of the fluid. Hence, a submerged body displaces a quantity of fluidequal to its owu bulk, and loses a portion of its weight equal to thatof the flidd displaced by it. Specific Gravity. 114- Specific gravity.—By specific gravity of a body is meantits weight, compared with that of…
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