| William Enfield - 1811 - 476 lehte
...pressure. PROP. LIII. The elastick spring of the air is equivalent to the force which compresses it. If the spring with which the air endeavours to expand...compressed were less than the compressing force, it would yield still farther to that force ; if it were greater, it would not have yielded so far. Therefore,... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 680 lehte
...the force which compresses it. Charles. How is that proved! Father. If the spring with which the Jr endeavours to expand itself when it is compressed,...forced into a yet smaller space ; but if the spring wer« greater than the weight pressing upon it, it. would not have yielded so much ; for you are well... | |
| William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 lehte
...same height, as it would have been raised by the pressure of the atmosphere. Besides, if the force with which the air endeavours to expand itself, when...compressed, were less than the compressing force, it would yield still farther to that force ; if it were greater, it would not have yielded so far : of... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 604 lehte
...proved independent of experiments in the following manner : if the force with which the VOL. ^. "II air endeavours to expand itself when it is compressed were less than the compressing force, it would yield still further to that force; if it were greater, it could not have yielded so far. Consequently,... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 254 lehte
...up the tube nearly to the height to which it would be raised by the pressure of the atmosphere. Obt. If the spring with which the air endeavours to expand...compressed, were less than the compressing force, it would yield still farther to that force; if it were greater, it would not have yielded so far. Therefore,... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - 1826 - 604 lehte
...This proposition is sometimes proved independent of experiments in the following manner : if the force with which the air endeavours to expand itself when...compressed were less than the compressing force, it would yield still further to that force ; if it were greater, it could not have yielded so far. Consequently,... | |
| William Enfield - 1832 - 282 lehte
...pressure. PROP. LIII. The elastic spring of the air is equivalent to the force which compresses it. If the spring with which the air endeavours to expand itself when it is compressed were less than the,compressing force, it would yield still farther to that force ; if it were greater, it would not... | |
| 1838 - 348 lehte
...would be raised by the pressure of the atmosphere. Obs. If the spring with which the air endeavors to expand itself when it is compressed were less than the compressing force, it would yield still farther to that force ; if it were greater, it would not have yielded so far. Therefore,... | |
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