 | 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... | |
 | 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 certain... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | John Hughes Bennett - 1870 - 466 pages
...liquid, and it is subjected to two forces, its own weight and the resultant of the fluid pressures acting vertically upwards through the centre of gravity of the displaced fluid. It will be upheld by a force equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the body. This is called... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - 1871 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1881 - 550 pages
...principle, en- %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,... | |
 | 1956 - 40 pages
...use of standards of mass is the buoyancy or lifting effect of the air. A body immersed in any fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. Two bodies of equal mass, if placed one on each pan of an equal-arm balance, will balance each other... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - 1942 - 840 pages
...sugar solutions is based on the well-known principle of Archimedes that a body immersed in a liquid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. In making a determination, a glass sinker or bulb weighted with mercury is suspended from the... | |
 | Arthur Lalanne Kimball - 1911 - 710 pages
...iron instead of the liquid. Therefore when any object is wholly or partially immersed in a liquid it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid, and the center of pressure is where the center of gravity of the submerged portion would be... | |
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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. 
