 | Charles Bossut - Astronomy - 1803 - 580 pages
...vertical line ; and that the whole weight of the body is to the weight of the quantity of fluid displaced, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the floating body. This general theory he illustrates by various examples taken from the triangle, the... | |
 | John Ewing - Astronomy - 1809 - 672 pages
...weighing them in different fluids. 11. 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. Because the weight, which the body loses in the fluid, is the weight of the fluid equal in bulk... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 494 pages
...are the same. 323. Corol. 4. Hence the magnitude of the whole bodyj is (o the magnitude of the psrt immersed, as the specific gravity of the fluid, is to that of the body. For, in bodies of equal weight, the densities, or specific gravities, are reciprocally as their... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...body is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk ns the part immersed. Hence, as the specific gravity of the fluid, is to that of the body, so is the whole magnitude of the body, to the magnitude of the part immersed. XIII. The specific... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...quantity of the 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,... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1824 - 394 pages
...several solids specifically heavier than the fluid in which they are immersed, we must proceed thus : As the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the solid, so is the weight which each solid loses, to its entire weight in air, because the weight lost... | |
 | Miles Bland - Hydrostatics - 1824 - 380 pages
...(sS).cr* x = s'r'2 110. When a body is immersed in a fluid, the weight lost is to the whole weight as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the solid. When a body is immersed in a fluid, the force with wfiich it descends will manifestly be equal... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...some of their weight in a fluid, and 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. The specific gravity of a body is the weight of it, when the bulk is given ; thirty-eight grains... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 440 pages
...some of their weight in a fluid, and 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. The specific gravity of a body is the weight of it, when the bulk is given ; thirty-eight grains... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 426 pages
...some of their weight in a fluid, and 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. The specific gravity of a body is the weight of it, when the bulk is given ; thirty-eight grains... | |
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The reason is, all bodies lose some of their weight in a fluid, and 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. 
