 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...found to weigh 1000 avoidupois ounces. The weight which a body loses in a fluid, is to its whole weight as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body. If a guinea weigh in air 129 grains, and on being immersed in water lose 7 1-4 of its weight, the proportion... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 380 pages
...shown that when a solid is immersed in a fluid, the weight lost is to the whole weight of the body as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the solid. The instruments used for ascertaining specific gravities are the hydrostatic balance and the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...difference is the weight of an equal volume of the fluid ; this, therefore, is to its weight in the air, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body. Consequently, if W be the weight of a body in air, W its weight in water, or any other fluid, S the... | |
 | James Hann - Mechanics - 1848 - 352 pages
...fluid displaced by the part immersed is equal in weight to the weight of the whole body. Therefore, the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body, as the whole magnitude of the body is to the part immersed. The specific gravities of equal solids... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...fluid displaced by the part immersed is equal in weight to the weight of the whole body. Therefore the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body as the whole magnitude of the body is to the part immersed. The specific gravities of equal solids... | |
 | Henry White - 1864 - 156 pages
...and show that when a solid is immersed in a fluid, the weight lost is to the whole weight of the body as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the solid. 10. Explain the principle of the hydraulic press, and find the mechanical power in a machine... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - Civil service - 1869 - 196 pages
...and show that when a solid is immersed in a fluid, the weight lost is to the whole weight of the body as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the solid. 10. Explain the principle of the hydraulic press, and find the mechanical power in a machine... | |
 | John Thurlow - 1871 - 90 pages
...Cor. 1. When a body is wholly immersed in a fluid, the weight lost is to the whole weight of the body as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body. is For as in the proposition above, suppose the body kept in position by a string, then weight lost... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Mechanical engineering - 1884 - 740 pages
...quantity of fluid displaced by the part immersed is equal to the weight of the whole body. And hence, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body, so is the whole magnitude of the body to the part immersed. The specific gravities of equal solids... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Fire engines - 1889 - 422 pages
...quantity of fluid displaced by the part immerged is equal to the weight of the whole body. And hence, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body, so is the whole magnitude of the body to the part immerged. The specific gravities of equal solids... | |
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Hence the magnitude of the whole body, is to the magnitude of the part immersed, as the specific gravity of the fluid, is to that of the body. 
