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 59
carefully the height of each fromthe present level of the liquid sur-face in thecorresponding tumbler.Subtract from the height ofeach column as thus measuredthe height to which it was raisedby capillary action at the begin-ning. FIG. 16. From the data now obtained find the specific gravity of the… … FLUID PRESSURE. 37 39. Further Study of Atmospheric Pressure—Barom-eter.—By measuring the difference in height of the twomercury-surfaces in Fig. 14 we can get a measure of theatmospheric pressure. We find that the atmosphericpressure is about as great upon the surface of the earthas would be the…
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