Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 156
106,provided the bore is small. The explanation is as follows :Since the liquid wets the tube, the angle of contact is acute,and the curved surface, or meniscus as it is called, must beconvex downwards with an excess of pressure on the con-cave side equal to T^- + ?-\ Where the surface is… … Fig. 107. r 4 liquid rises to such a level that the pressure just below A isthat at CD dimiuished by the pressure due to the hight ofthe column of fluid AE. When theliquid does not wet the tube. i.e. whenthe curvature of the surface is posi-tive, the opposite effect takes place,the surface B (Fig.…
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