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A large part of Chapter VII is reprinted from a series of notes of a part of the
Glasgow course , drawn up for Sir W. Thomson by John Ferguson , Esq . , and
printed for the use of his students . We have had considerable difficulty in
compiling this ...
A large part of Chapter VII is reprinted from a series of notes of a part of the
Glasgow course , drawn up for Sir W. Thomson by John Ferguson , Esq . , and
printed for the use of his students . We have had considerable difficulty in
compiling this ...
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The sole justification of the course we have pursued is that wherever , in the
present volume , the student may feel further information to be desirable , he will
have no difficulty in finding it in the corresponding pages of the larger work . A
great ...
The sole justification of the course we have pursued is that wherever , in the
present volume , the student may feel further information to be desirable , he will
have no difficulty in finding it in the corresponding pages of the larger work . A
great ...
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The course of such a curve is , in common language , well called ' tortuous ; ' and
the measure of the corresponding property is conveniently called Tortuosity . 12.
The nature of this will be best understood by considering the curve as a ...
The course of such a curve is , in common language , well called ' tortuous ; ' and
the measure of the corresponding property is conveniently called Tortuosity . 12.
The nature of this will be best understood by considering the curve as a ...
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Of course , if a pulley be fixed , the motion of a point of one end of the cord to or
from it involves an equal motion of the other end from or to it . If the strings be not
parallel , the relations of a single pulley or of a system of pulleys are a little ...
Of course , if a pulley be fixed , the motion of a point of one end of the cord to or
from it involves an equal motion of the other end from or to it . If the strings be not
parallel , the relations of a single pulley or of a system of pulleys are a little ...
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Thus , a railway train , after starting , gradually increases its speed , and every
one understands what is meant by saying that at a particular instant it moves at
the rate of ten or of fifty miles an hour , -although , in the course of an hour , it may
not ...
Thus , a railway train , after starting , gradually increases its speed , and every
one understands what is meant by saying that at a particular instant it moves at
the rate of ten or of fifty miles an hour , -although , in the course of an hour , it may
not ...
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| Title | Elements of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 Volume 23 of A library of universal literature. Part one - Science [vol.23] Clarendon Press series Elements of Natural Philosophy, Peter Guthrie Tait Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 |
| Authors | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1873 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 May 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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