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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...from slime or dirt) before the Experiments were made. And also, that the respective Friction Planks and other bodies that were used in the Experiments of the year 1798 were planed smooth and painted, but were not water soaken; and also clean from slime or dirt. (See Table II. On FRICTION). From whence it is evident, that the Experiments of the year 1798 were not made precisely under the same circumstances as the Experiments of the year 1796: --that is, so far as relates to the resistance arising from the friction; for it is to be noticed, that when bodies have been immersed some time in the water, so as to be pretty much water soaken, the fibres of the wood start, and the surface becomes rougher than when such bodies were first immersed; therefore the resistance arising from the friction will be greater against the bodies that have been water soaken, as in the friction found by the Experiments of 1796; and which is proved to be the case by the following comparison: Now, as we had several opportunities of observing, that there was a material difference between the resistance of the bodies when drawn through the water, both before and after they were water soaken, and that they always met with more resistance after they were water soaken, we have therefore not the smallest doubt but the difference in the friction, as found above, arises And it may be useful to observe, that we have occasionally drawn bodies through the wafer that have been immersed long enough to gather a little slime on them; and have immediately afterwards drawn the same bodies through the water by means of the same motive power, with the slime washed off, from whence we have always found that the bodies came the faster, when the slime had been washed off. Upon considering the results of the..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153777896
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 127 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1153777894
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: In Three Volumes with Plates
  • Width: 189 mm


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