 | William Marrat - 1810 - 512 pàgines
...whiph, if the open end of the tube be immersed in a vessel of mercury, the mercury will be forced into the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the mercury in the vessel. When it is filled to about half way up the tube, there is then mercury enough... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 pàgines
...the mouth of it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the same principle, in the present instance, why does... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 680 pàgines
...the mouth of it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the srunt irinciple, in the present instance, why... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 446 pàgines
...the mouth of it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the same principle, in the present instance, why does... | |
 | Peter Lyon - 1816 - 194 pàgines
...taken off, they will ascend in any tube, without any action of the tube itself, or any vis a tergo, but the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in which the tube is placed. We likewise know, that if the particles of any body are so minutely divided... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1822 - 1008 pàgines
...fluid contained in the vessel, when the fluid will flow out of the longer leg by its own gravity, and, by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the vessel, it will continue to flow until the whole is dr.iv/n off. If a vacuum is made in the crane,... | |
 | Henry Moseley - 1830 - 318 pàgines
...the apertures. Also, let pl, p2, p3...pn be respectively the pressures at the apertures. Then is pn the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the upper vessel. Therefore (Art. 157.) &c. = &c. If, therefore, a represent the height of the aperture... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 1842 - 326 pàgines
...PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY. it will be found that a column of the fluid metal, 30 inches high, will be sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the mercury in the vessel. The weight of a column of mercury one inch square, and 30 inches high, is nearly... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1844 - 336 pàgines
...quicksilver in the tube will settle to the height of about thirty inches, where it will rest, being sustained by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cistern, to which force its weight is exactly equal. The space above the quicksilver, is the best vacuum... | |
 | William Reid - 1846 - 626 pàgines
...the same liquid, the mercury in the tube, in ordinary states of the weather, will descend to thirty inches, measured from the surface of the fluid in...would indicate the changes which take place in the atmospheric pressure. The sympiesometer is a more delicate instrument for measuring the atmospheric... | |
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The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cup. 
