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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Experiments on solids | 8 |
Definition of pressure at a point | 15 |
GENERAL THEOREMS RELATING TO PRESSURE | 22 |
11 | 29 |
Pressure throughout a horizontal plane constant | 30 |
Surfaces of equal pressure and density coincide | 43 |
022 | 59 |
64 | 116 |
Jollys Balance | 122 |
Archimedes Theorem | 125 |
CHAPTER VII | 130 |
Perfect Gases | 136 |
Density of the Atmosphere | 142 |
CHAPTER VIII | 153 |
The Common Pump | 159 |
CHAPTER IV | 63 |
Centre of pressure of a circle | 70 |
CHAPTER V | 79 |
Conditions of equilibrium of floating body | 86 |
Surface of Buoyancy | 93 |
Illustrative Examples | 100 |
Examples | 106 |
Smeatons AirPump | 165 |
Illustrative Example | 171 |
General Principle from which Capillary phenomena may be deduced | 177 |
Rise of liquid inside fine tube | 183 |
Work done in stretching membrane | 189 |
Examples | 195 |
| 203 | |