A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A. — John Shaqi
A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.Whiston, William
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A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.
Whiston, William
Physical instruments; Physics -- Early works to 1800; Physics -- Experiments
_Fig. 2._ Is a Cycloid with its equal Sides A B, A C, and pendulous Body
E, oscillating therein. And, _Note_, That by the Make of the Figure, the
Line B C is equal to the Circumference of the Circle D G F, by which it
was describ'd; that the Length of the Cycloid it self is four times that
Circle's Diameter; that every Part of it from F the _Vertex_ is still
double to the Chord of the Correspondent circular Arch G F; that its
included Area B D C F, is Three times the Area of the former Circle; that
the Force upon the Pendulum at any Point E, is exactly proportional to the
Distance along the Cycloid of the Point from the _Vertex_, as E F; and
that therefore the Time of every Oscillation, in all Angles whatsoever, is
always equal.
_Fig. 3._ A C B is a Syphon with Quicksilver from A to C, and a Pendulum
of half that Length; to shew here also that the Force is as the Line to be
describ'd, and that by Consequence the Vibrations in the Syphon are all
equal: as also to shew that they are equal to those of a Pendulum, of half
the same Length: As is plain from the former Case of the Cycloid, where
the Length of the Pendulum is half that of the Cycloid in which the Body
moves.
_Fig. 4._ A B are two Spheres, to denote the several Laws of Motion in the
Collision of Bodies, whether Elastical or not Elastical, to be tried in
the Cycloid, or in a Circle, with proper Corrections: Which Experiments
yet are most of them too difficult for such a Course as this is.
_Fig. 5._ Is an Instrument to explain muscular Motion; supposing the
Muscles to be some way like a String of Bladders; by shewing that a
smaller Quantity of an elastical Fluid may equally raise equal Weights
with a larger; and to shew exactly what Quantity is necessary for any
particular Effect. For thus will the lesser Quantity of Air, (measured in
both Cases by the Gage C A K, as condens'd by the Syringe H A) equally
raise an equal Weight to the same Height by the lesser three Bladders,
that the greater Quantity raises the same by the one larger Bladder.
_Fig. 6._ Are several Pendulums of several Sorts of Matter, heavy and
light; where the Centers of Suspension and Oscillation are equally
distant, and the Times of those Oscillations are all equal. This also
hints the other remarkable Phænomena of Pendulums; _viz._ that the
Semicircular and Cycloidal Times of Oscillation are to each other as 34 to
29: That in both the Length of the Strings of Pendulums are in a duplicate
Proportion to their Times of Oscillation; and that the Heights of Roofs,
_&c._ may be found from the Times of the Oscillations of Pendulous Bodies
fixed to them, on the known Hypothesis that a Pendulum of 39.2 Inches
vibrates in one Second of Time.
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