Mathematical and Physical Papers, Volume 2University Press, 1884 - Mathematics |
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... energy in nature . Their light has been seen , and their heat has been felt , without the slightest suspicion that we had thus a direct per- ception of mechanical energy at all . Even after it has been shown * that the almost ...
... energy in nature . Their light has been seen , and their heat has been felt , without the slightest suspicion that we had thus a direct per- ception of mechanical energy at all . Even after it has been shown * that the almost ...
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... energy as that of the motions of all the known planets taken together . The energy , that of light and radiant heat , thus emitted , is dissipated always more and more widely through endless space , and never has been , probably never ...
... energy as that of the motions of all the known planets taken together . The energy , that of light and radiant heat , thus emitted , is dissipated always more and more widely through endless space , and never has been , probably never ...
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... energy of chemical forces ready to act . If not in the Sun , it must be due to matter coming to the Sun ; ( for it certainly is not a mere communication of motion to solar particles from external energy , as such could only be effected ...
... energy of chemical forces ready to act . If not in the Sun , it must be due to matter coming to the Sun ; ( for it certainly is not a mere communication of motion to solar particles from external energy , as such could only be effected ...
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... energy for future Sun light must be principally within the earth's orbit : and we actually see them there as the " Zodiacal Light , ” an illuminated shower or rather tornado of stones ( Herschel , § 897 ) . The inner parts of this ...
... energy for future Sun light must be principally within the earth's orbit : and we actually see them there as the " Zodiacal Light , ” an illuminated shower or rather tornado of stones ( Herschel , § 897 ) . The inner parts of this ...
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... energy the body had at the commencement of the sudden change is converted into heat and radiated off ; and the mass itself settles incorporated in the Sun. It appears , therefore , that the velocity which a meteor loses in entering the ...
... energy the body had at the commencement of the sudden change is converted into heat and radiated off ; and the mass itself settles incorporated in the Sun. It appears , therefore , that the velocity which a meteor loses in entering the ...
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