Category: Science - Physics
26. 〃 A Body which Floats in Water always occupies as much Space beneath the level of the Surface of the Water as is equal to the Volume of Water which weighs as much as that Body; in other words, it displaces its own Weight of Water 36
Such an instrument is the _balance_ or _scales_, which you may see in every grocer’s shop. It is composed of a beam which moves easily on a pivot fixed to its middle, and which...
4. Part 4But the distance which the water will travel during this second will be the difference between the distance which it would have ascended if there had been no gravity forcing it...
6. Part 6If half a pint of water, coloured by putting a little ink into it, is added to the same quantity of clean water, the two will readily mingle; the total quantity of water will be...
2. Part 2If nothing happens by chance, but everything in nature follows a definite order, and if the laws of nature embody that which we have been able to learn about the order of nature...
5. Part 5Our tumbler of water, if put out of doors on a cold winter’s night, would gradually cool until it assumed a temperature of 39° throughout. Cooling below this temperature, the wa...
1. Part 126. 〃 A Body which Floats in Water always occupies as much Space beneath the level of the Surface of the Water as is equal to the Volume of Water which weighs as much as that Bo...
7. Part 7The wheat plant in the field is said to be a =living= thing; the fowl running about the farm-yard is also said to be a =living= thing. If the plant is plucked up, and if the fow...