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A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)

Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 56

An illustration from A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments.", 1891, leaf 56 — FLUID-PRESSURE. 33 In the case of the apparatus just used the pressure-which moves the piston is due to the weight of the waterin the upright tube. The hydrostatic press usually dependsfor its action on the pressure applied to the liquid in alarge cylinder from a plunger working in a smaller… … FIG. 13. in the cylinder V, and the plunger D works similarly inthe small cylinder a. Small quantities of water or someother liquid are successively forced from a into V by themovements of D, and A is raised very slowly, but withgreat force. Since the pressure per square centimeter exerted by…

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