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" Archimedes stated that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. "
A College Text-book of Physics - Page 118
by Arthur Lalanne Kimball - 1911 - 692 pages
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Elementos de fisica esperimental dedicados á la enseñanza de los alumnos del ...

Abendaño - 1852 - 722 pages
...glass, and loaded so that one shall float, the other sink. Experiment. 1st. A heavy body when immersed is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Place the receiver on the stand, fill it with water and draw out the latter until the point of the...
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Elements of Mechanics: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and High Schools

William Guy Peck - 1859 - 368 pages
...they repel the water, heaping it up on each side, thus forming a cavity in the surface ; the needle is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, and, when this exceeds the weight of the needle, it will float. It is on this principle that...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 518 pages
...following principle, entirely analogous to the principle of AECHIMEDES : When a body is plunged into a gas, it is buoyed up by -a force equal to the weight -of the displaced gas. If the buoyant effort is greater than the weight of the body, the latter will rise ; if it is...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - 1871 - 516 pages
...following principle, entirely analogous to the principle of ARCHIMEDES : When a body is plunged into a gas, it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced gas. If the buoyant effort is greater than the weight of the body, the latter will rise : if it is...
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Elements of Physical Manipulation, Part 1

Edward Charles Pickering - 1873 - 240 pages
...glass, and loaded so that one shall float, the other sink. Experiment. 1st. A heavy body when immersed is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Place the receiver on the stand, fill it with water and draw out the latter until the point of the...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of High Schools and ...

Adolphe Ganot - 1881 - 556 pages
...Flg ' 148 ' tirely analogous to the principle of ARCHIMEDES : — When a body is plunged into a gas, it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced gas. If the buoyant effort is greater than the weight of the body, the latter will rise; if it is less,...
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A Treatise on Hydrostatics

Sir George Greenhill - 1894 - 554 pages
...and equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Fig. 35. In other words " A body plunged into liquid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid, acting vertically upwards through the CG of this liquid." This Corollary is important as the first...
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A Treatise on Hydrostatics

Sir George Greenhill - 1894 - 552 pages
...or partialty immersed in a Fluid or Fluids (not necessarily a single liquid), at rest under gravity, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, acting vertically upwards through the centre of gravity of the displaced fluid." To prove this...
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A Manual of Elementary Practical Physics for High Schools

Julius Hortvet - 1899 - 280 pages
...Archimedes suggests a method by which the density of a substance may be determined. When a solid is immersed in a liquid, it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the liquid displaced. Or, in other words, when a solid is immersed in a liquid, its loss of weight...
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Inorganic Chemistry: With the Elements of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

John Iredelle Dillard Hinds - 1902 - 608 pages
...attraction is strong and the flow difficult, the liquid is said to be viscous. Buoyancy.— If a solid is immersed in a liquid, it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the water displaced. If the density of the solid is less than that of the water, it will float;...
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