Note N. 176 — SECTION XIV.

Note 176, p. 115. Let A Aʹ, fig. 42, be two plates, both of which are wet, and B Bʹ two that are dry. When partly immersed in a liquid, its surface will be curved close to them, but will be of its usual level for the rest of the distance. At such a distance they will neither attract nor repel one another. But, as soon as they are brought near enough to have the whole of the liquid surface between them curved, as in a aʹ, b bʹ, they will rush together. If one be wet and another dry, as C Cʹ, they will repel one another at a certain distance; but, as soon as they are brought very near, they will rush together, as in the former cases.