On the Connexion of the Physical SciencesJ. Murray, 1858 - 523 pages |
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Page 112
... plate of platinum with extremely clean surfaces , when plunged into oxygen and hydrogen gas mixed in the pro- portions which are found in the constitution of water , causes the gases to combine and water to be formed , the platinum to ...
... plate of platinum with extremely clean surfaces , when plunged into oxygen and hydrogen gas mixed in the pro- portions which are found in the constitution of water , causes the gases to combine and water to be formed , the platinum to ...
Page 115
... plates and the liquid ( N. 175 ) ; and the phenomena will be ex- actly the same as in a cylindrical tube whose diameter is double the distance of the plates from each other . If the two surfaces be very near to one another , and touch ...
... plates and the liquid ( N. 175 ) ; and the phenomena will be ex- actly the same as in a cylindrical tube whose diameter is double the distance of the plates from each other . If the two surfaces be very near to one another , and touch ...
Page 144
... plate of glass or metal , and if undulations be excited by drawing the bow of a violin across its edge , it will emit a musical sound , and the sand will immediately arrange itself in the nodal lines , where alone it will accumulate and ...
... plate of glass or metal , and if undulations be excited by drawing the bow of a violin across its edge , it will emit a musical sound , and the sand will immediately arrange itself in the nodal lines , where alone it will accumulate and ...
Page 145
... plate . The nodal lines and pitch vary not only with the point where the bow is applied , but with the point by which the plate is held , which being at rest necessarily determines the direction of one of the quiescent lines . The forms ...
... plate . The nodal lines and pitch vary not only with the point where the bow is applied , but with the point by which the plate is held , which being at rest necessarily determines the direction of one of the quiescent lines . The forms ...
Page 146
... plate of glass , yet among different plates of the preceding dimensions , even though cut from the same sheet side by side , one will invariably exhibit one system , and the other the other , without any visible reason for the ...
... plate of glass , yet among different plates of the preceding dimensions , even though cut from the same sheet side by side , one will invariably exhibit one system , and the other the other , without any visible reason for the ...
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