Category: Science - Physics
ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, IRELAND; FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY; FELLOW OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY, ETC.; LECTURER IN PHYSICS AT THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE, FINSBURY
Slow as was the formation of this drop, it was still too rapid to enable you to trace the origin of the droplet. It came, as it always does come, from the drawn-out neck. When t...
2. Part 2*Production of True Spheres of Liquids.*--Now it is quite possible to produce true spheres of liquid, even of large size, if we cancel the effect of gravity; and we may obtain a...
4. Part 4*Condensation of Drops from Vapour,--Mists, Fogs and Raindrops.*--The atmosphere is the great laboratory for the manufacture of drops. It is continually receiving water in the f...
5. Part 5Let us recall again the three forces at work at the edge of a floating globule (Fig. 35). The surface tension of the water, acting horizontally, tends to stretch the globule, an...
1. Part 1ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, IRELAND; FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY; FELLOW OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY, ETC.; LECTURER IN PHYSICS AT THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LON...
6. Part 6Shape of detached masses of liquid, . . . 8 Silver floating on water, . . . . . 4 Solubility, movements due to, . . . . 63 Spheres of liquids, effect of temperature on, . 15 " "...