 | S. Brodetsky - 1921 - 320 pages
...if a ship is at rest in still water, the weight of the ship and all it contains must be equal to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the part immersed. (In the case of a heavy body like a ship, the buoyancy of the air can be neglected.)... | |
 | Charles Elwood Dull - 1922 - 578 pages
...the weight w". The difference between w' and w" equals the buoyant force on the solid alone, or the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the solid. Therefore, the specific weight =—7——-,EXAMPLE. A piece of cork weighs 40 gin. A sinker... | |
 | William G. Raymond, Sherman Melville Woodward, Irving Henry Prageman - 1926 - 66 pages
...problem the volume of the sphere is % v. Let w represent the weight of 1 cubic foot of water. Then the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sphere is ^ irw, and the weight of the solid sphere is 0.65-^7rw. Let z, Fig. 7, equal the depth of... | |
 | 1939 - 478 pages
...equal to the volume of voids; or, (2) as the sum of the effective weight of the particles plus the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the entire soil mass. This may be seen from the following: (1) The total volume of soil=l + e. Effective... | |
 | United States. Office of economic progress - 1945 - 310 pages
...The specific gravity determinations were based on the ratio of the oven-dry weight of the wood to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the wood at the time of testing. The true specific gravity would be based on the ratio of the weight of... | |
 | 1954 - 528 pages
...usually based on green volume, and is defined as the ratio of the weight of the ovendry sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the green sample. Methods of specific gravity determination that will give the necessary accuracy on this... | |
 | United States. Army-Navy-Civil Committee on Aircraft Design Criteria - 1946 - 166 pages
...broad surface of the piece. Gravity, specific: The ratio of the oven-dry weight of a wood sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the wood sample at some specific moisture content. In the field of timber physics specific gravity values... | |
 | 1997 - 526 pages
...associated with many important wood properties. It is the ratio of the weight of a sample of wood to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sample. Because specific gravity varies with wood moisture content, it must be determined on an ovendry... | |
 | 1924 - 1120 pages
...standard weights to the opposite scale-pan. The weight required to restore the balance in this way is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the specimen. If the weight is expressed in grams it is numerically equal to the volume of the specimen... | |
 | 1915 - 840 pages
...standard weights to the opposite scale-pan. The weight required to restore the balance in this way is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the specimen. If expressed in grams it is also numerically equal to the volume of the specimen expressed... | |
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... the ratio of the ovendry weight of a sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sample at some specific moisture content, as green, air-dry, or ovendry. 
