 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 str.
...muft therefore aflume it as the leading propofition, that air ruftet from tie almoffhere into a void with the velocity -which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of a hcmogcncovi atmofpbere* It is known that air is about 840 times lighter than water, >and... | |
 | William Marrat - 1810 - 512 str.
...is analagous to art. 548, from whence it follows, that air rushes from the atmosphere into a vacuum, with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the altitude of a homogeneous atmosphere. Therefore, put the altitude of a homogeneous atmosphere =... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 736 str.
...vessel of indefinite magnitude, and impelled by its weight only, will flow through a small orifice with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the horizontal surface of the fluid. Thus, if the orifice is 16 feet ^ under the surface of the water,... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 1825 - 350 str.
...the space into which it rushes. ..It is a well-known law of pneumatics, that air rushes into a void with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of a homogeneous atmosphere ; and that the velocity with which a fluid of greater denfeity... | |
 | John Farrar - 1825 - 476 str.
...perfectly similar will vary in the same proportion. Hence it follows that the air rushes into a void with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of the atmosphere, this fluid being supposed to be of a uniform density throughout. The height... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 str.
...must, therefore, assume it as the leading proposition, that air rushes from the atmosphere into a void with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of a homogeneous atmosphere. 69. All the modifications of motion which are observed in water... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 1832 - 664 str.
...them in that state, is removed. And it is a well known law of pneumatics, that air rushes into a void, with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of a homogeneous atmosphere; and that the velocity, with which a fluid of greater density,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1854 - 762 str.
...681., and 682. is as applicable to this case as to that of liquids. Hence, air rushes into a vacuum with the velocity -which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the top of a homogeneous atmosphere. This height varies with the temperature and other circumstances.... | |
 | 1864 - 552 str.
...of passage is regulated by its specific gravity. " A gas," says Mr. Graham, " rushes into a vacuum with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the height of an atmosphere composed of the gas in question, and supposed to be of a uniform density... | |
 | 1863 - 982 str.
...from Torricelli's well-known theorem of the velocity of efHux of fluids. A gas rushes into a vacuum with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the height of an atmosphere composed of the gas in question, and supposed to be of uniform density... | |
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A gas rushes into a vacuum with the velocity which a heavy body would acquire by falling from the height of an atmosphere composed of the gas in question, and supposed to be of uniform density throughout. The height of the uniform atmosphere will be inversely... 
