Natural philosophy. including statics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, dynamics, hydrodynamics, the general theory of undulations, the science of sound, the mechanical theory of music, etc. : designed for the use of normal and grammar schools, and the higher classes in common schools (1861)
Sangster, John Herbert, 1831-1904 · Montreal : J. Lovell · leaf 87
dam ? jlns. Against whole dam 288750 lbs. upper half 72187^ lbs. lower half 2165625 lbs. 237. A flood gate 26 feet wide is submerged perpendicularly tothe depth of 12 feet; find 1st. The pressure against one sideof the whole part submerged. 2nd. The pressure against thelower half. 3rd. The pressure… … 182. If water be confined in a vessel and a pressure toany amount be exerted upon any one square inch of thesurface of that water, a pressure to an equal amount willbe transmitted to every square inch of the interior surfaceof the vessel in which the water is confined. Fig. 16. XoTE.—Ill the…
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