Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 113
-volume. That liquids resist stresses whichact to increase their volume is nota very familiar fact, because of Jheease with which they flow. Water..the commonest example of a liqiiiM I y jmay be shown to possess considerable e^^^^^^^^^^strength by the apparatus represented * r,. nr Fig. 65. ~ m… … Fig. 66. above the liquid contains a small amount of steam freefrom air. If the tube has remained for some time in such a positionas to keep the leg cb full, it may be carefully reversed, as in Fig. 66, without the water flowingout of the leg cb. The stress atany section, d, is produced by…
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