 | Samuel Newth - 1864 - 392 pages
...such that wh = M. • 232. THE BAROMETER. This instrument is constructed in the following manner: — A glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and, a finger being placed over the open end, is inverted in an open vessel of mercury. Let AB be such a... | |
 | Samuel Newth - 1871 - 152 pages
...wh = M. 106. The cistern barometer. — This instrument is constructed in the following manner : — A glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and, a finger being placed over the open end, is inverted in an open vessel of mercury. Let AB be such a... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - 1891 - 444 pages
...or falling of the mercury in a glass tube. This instrument is constructed in the following manner: A glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and a finger being placed over the open end, is inverted in an open vessel of mercury. The mercury in the... | |
 | Henry Newton Dickson - 1893 - 236 pages
...measured in terms of a weight. The barometer is simply a " weighing machine " adapted to this purpose. A glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury and inverted in a vessel also containing mercury. If the instrument is now placed in the gas whose pressure... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rowland, Joseph Sweetman Ames - 1900 - 300 pages
...The fact that there is such a pressure is shown by the following experiment: If a long (over 80 cm.) glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and then carefully inverted, allowing no mercury to escape; and, if the open end is placed beneath the surface... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rowland, Joseph Sweetman Ames - 1900 - 300 pages
...The fact that there is such a pressure is shown by the following experiment: If a long (over 80 cm.) glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and then carefully inverted, allowing no mercury to escape; and, if the open end is placed beneath the surface... | |
 | Victor Schmidt, William Harbert - 2003 - 448 pages
...column of mercury forms the basis of the traditional barometer used in measuring atmospheric pressure. A glass tube, closed at one end, is filled with mercury and inverted with its open end in a dish full of mercury (see Figure 7-1). If the tube is about a meter... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 302 pages
...connecting tube be wide, the liquid will oscillate backwards and forwards several times before coming to rest, though in the end the levels will be identical,...space above it, till it stands about 30 inches above the surface of the mercury in the trough. At this level the pressure on the surface of the mercury... | |
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A glass tube closed at one end is filled with mercury, and then inverted over mercury in a trough. 