Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860- · Madison, Wis. · leaf 181
tance, the sides of the vessel contracttowards the top, we shall see that the pressure upon the base,A, is again the same as it would have been if the sides had beenvertical, and the vessel had been filled with liquid to the samedepth h. This will be at once understood, Fig. 109, if we seleet-a… … Fig. 109. Pressure on thebase greater than theweight of the liquid. of liquid ah vertically above it, plus whatever downward pres-sure exists at 6. At & the pressure must be the same as thepressure at c, since h and c are points at the same horizontallevel. The pressure at c, and thereforealso…
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