Communicating vessels: water pressed up through a pipe
Hydrostatic study of water forced from one container into another
A diagram shows two communicating containers, lettered a b c d and m n, with a weight pressing down on the water in one of them. The note explains that the water-weight a b, as it descends, will raise out of the cistern m n through the pipe n d an amount equal to its own weight. The page studies how pressure transmitted through water links the levels of connected vessels.
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Water pressed down in a b rises through the pipe n d
In the diagram two vessels a b c d and m n are joined. The weight a b, being water, sinks so far that it lifts out of the cistern m n, through the pipe n d, an amount of water equal to its own weight. The figures 100 and 100 mark the balanced loads. It is a study of communicating vessels and the transfer of pressure through water.