Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 109
ect is todiminish this dimension, it iscalled a pressure. A tension incue direction, combined with, anequal pressure at right angles,is called a shearing stress. If.for instance, the cube ABCD(Fig. 64) be subjected to a pres-sure perpendicular to the sides AB and CD. and a tensionperpendicular to… … 5 TEA IX. 99 When the pressure at a point is the same in all directions,the stress is called a hydrostatic pressure. On account of the convenience with which the pressureof a or-as niav be measured bv the column of mercury whichit will support, the pressure at the depth of one centimeterin a pool…
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