A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition : in Two Volumes, Band 2

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W. E. Dean, 1831

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Seite 459 - Or, by an. 249 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Seite 66 - To prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (see fig.
Seite 195 - VI, its Corollaries and Scholium, for Constant Forces, are true in the Motions of. Bodies freely descending by their own Gravity ; namely, that the Velocities are as the Times, and the Spaces as the Squares of the Times, or as the Squares of the Velocities. FOR, since the force of gravity is uniform, and constantly the same, at all places near the earth's surface, or at nearly the same distance from the centre of the earth ; and since • this is the force by which bodies descend to the surface ;...
Seite 239 - BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Seite 289 - The workmen thought that substituting part silver was only a proper <perquisite; which taking air, Archimedes was appointed to examine it ; who, on putting...
Seite 35 - Two planes are said to have the same or a like inclination to one another which two other planes have, when the said angles of inclination are equal to one another.
Seite 75 - Let a, b, c, be the sides, and A, B, c, the angles of a spherical triangle, on the surface of a sphere whose radius is r ; then...
Seite 385 - Multiply the number in the table of multiplicands, by the breadth and square of the depth, both in inches, and divide that product by the length, also, in inches; the quotient will be the weight in Jbs.t Example 1.
Seite 244 - Weigh the denser body and the compound mass, separately, both in water and out of it ; then find how much each loses in water, by subtracting its weight in water from its weight in air ; and subtract the less of these remainders from the greater. Then...
Seite 140 - Body is either Hard, Soft, or Elastic. A Hard Body is that whose parts do not yield to any stroke or percussion, but retains its figure unaltered. A Soft Body is that whose parts yield^to any stroke or impression, without restoring themselves again ; the figure of the body remaining altered.

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