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... side of the cork cut a slit so as to allow the air to pass 1 In fitting up apparatus for an experiment the exact size will depend largely upon whether it is to be used for private observation or class demonstration . In order to avoid ...
... side of the cork cut a slit so as to allow the air to pass 1 In fitting up apparatus for an experiment the exact size will depend largely upon whether it is to be used for private observation or class demonstration . In order to avoid ...
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... side of a glass vessel platinum is always used . If you try to fuse a copper wire into a piece of glass tubing , you will find that on cooling the copper contracts more rapidly than the glass , and so a crack is started which makes the ...
... side of a glass vessel platinum is always used . If you try to fuse a copper wire into a piece of glass tubing , you will find that on cooling the copper contracts more rapidly than the glass , and so a crack is started which makes the ...
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... side , or else the bars themselves would bend . Instead of this , they are fixed at one end only and are free to expand at the other end ; or , as in boiler - furnaces , the fire - bars are not fixed at all at the ends , but simply rest ...
... side , or else the bars themselves would bend . Instead of this , they are fixed at one end only and are free to expand at the other end ; or , as in boiler - furnaces , the fire - bars are not fixed at all at the ends , but simply rest ...
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Daniel Evan Jones. bullet takes just a second to swing from side to side : if you reduce the length of the string to one half , it will swing four times as quickly . Now the metal rod which supports the bob of a pendulum expands and ...
Daniel Evan Jones. bullet takes just a second to swing from side to side : if you reduce the length of the string to one half , it will swing four times as quickly . Now the metal rod which supports the bob of a pendulum expands and ...
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... side is an inch long and the area ABCD is a square inch . ) Let the coefficient of linear expansion of the material of which the square is made be denoted by a : on heating it from o ° to 1 ° the square will expand so that each side ...
... side is an inch long and the area ABCD is a square inch . ) Let the coefficient of linear expansion of the material of which the square is made be denoted by a : on heating it from o ° to 1 ° the square will expand so that each side ...
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A. W. VERRALL amount of heat angle of incidence Assistant Master beam boiling boiling-point BOOK bulb Cambridge candle centimetres CHEMISTRY coefficient coloured concave lens concave mirror condensation convex lens cooling cork distance diverge Edited ELEMENTARY English equal equation expansion experiment EXPT FASNACHT Fcap flame flask focal length front G. E. FASNACHT GEOMETRY grammes GREEK HISTORY Illustrated image is formed inches incident ray increases interval ISAAC TODHUNTER latent heat LATIN lenses liquid LL.D Mathematics melt mercury observer Owens College paper passes placed position pressure principal axis principal focus prism produced Prof Professor pulse radiation rarefaction ray of light real image reflected refracted ray revised School screen shown in Fig side sound source of light specific heat steam string surface T. H. HUXLEY temperature thermometer Translated TREATISE Trinity College University velocity vibration vibration-number volume water-vapour wire
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