The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... piston receive their first impression sooner than those which reason in many cases . Suppose we wish to register ... piston which moves back- wards and forwards from A to c , and from c to A , after the manner of a spring , the type of ...
... piston receive their first impression sooner than those which reason in many cases . Suppose we wish to register ... piston which moves back- wards and forwards from A to c , and from c to A , after the manner of a spring , the type of ...
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... piston at every point of its course is propagated instantaneously to c , and from thence only , with the velocity of 1125 feet per second . We will now consider what this effect is . Divide the whole length A C , fig . 3 , into a large ...
... piston at every point of its course is propagated instantaneously to c , and from thence only , with the velocity of 1125 feet per second . We will now consider what this effect is . Divide the whole length A C , fig . 3 , into a large ...
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... piston has travelled from A to the small perpendicular , through something more than a quarter of a vibration : the first disturbance has reached D , and the curve DK is the type of the state of each particle as to velocity ; that is ...
... piston has travelled from A to the small perpendicular , through something more than a quarter of a vibration : the first disturbance has reached D , and the curve DK is the type of the state of each particle as to velocity ; that is ...
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... pistons , one at each end of the tube . After a certain time , depending on the length of the tube , two waves will meet , by which we mean that the par- ticles will begin to be affected by the motion of both pistons , and the manner in ...
... pistons , one at each end of the tube . After a certain time , depending on the length of the tube , two waves will meet , by which we mean that the par- ticles will begin to be affected by the motion of both pistons , and the manner in ...
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... piston at one end only of the tube , provided the other end be closed . For , on this supposition , all the successive states into which the air at the end furthest from the piston is brought , cannot be communicated to the outside air ...
... piston at one end only of the tube , provided the other end be closed . For , on this supposition , all the successive states into which the air at the end furthest from the piston is brought , cannot be communicated to the outside air ...
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Seite 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Seite 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
Seite 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Seite 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Seite 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Seite 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
Seite 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
Seite 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
Seite 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.