Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 166
on, are equal to the weight of the needle diminished by the weight of the water displaced. The insects, often seen on the surface of pools, derivetheir support in a similar manner. The tendency often exhibited by small floating bodies onthe surface of a liquid to cling to the sides of the vessel,… … 156 SUB FACE TEN SI OX. that the curvature of the surface at m will be numericallygreater than at I or n. But this condition, according to thelaw demonstrated in Art. Ill, requires a smaller pressure justbelow m than that above, which is sensibly the same as that
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