Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a mathematical or physical character. Series AThe Society, 1897 - Mathematics |
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Page 3 - ... the angle which the tangent to the curve at that point makes with the axis of strain ; I will call this angle <f>.
Page iii - Society being of late years greatly enlarged, and their communications more numerous, it was thought advisable that a Committee of their members should be appointed to reconsider the papers read before them, and select out of them such as they should judge most proper for publication in the future Transactions ; which was accordingly done upon the 26th of March, 1752.
Page iii - Body, never interesting themselves any further in their publication, than by occasionally recommending the revival of them to some of their Secretaries, when, from the particular circumstances of their affairs, the Transactions had happened for any length of time to be intermitted. And this seems principally to have been done with a view to satisfy the Public, that their usual meetings were then continued, for the improvement of knowledge, and benefit of mankind, the great ends of their first institution...
Page 259 - As is well known, if the moist air has been previously freed from " dust," no condensation takes place except on the walls of the vessel, even if the expansion be sufficient to produce considerable supersaturation. For convenience, the term. " dust " is here used to include all nuclei which can be removed either by filtering or by repeatedly forming a cloud by expansion and allowing it to settle. What is the limit, if such exists, to the degree of supersaturation which can be attained without condensation...
Page iii - It is likewise necessary on this occasion to remark, that it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion, as a Body, upon any subject, either of Nature or Art, that comes before them.
Page 246 - By way of numerical illustration, take a year as the unit of time and an inch as the unit of length, and suppose a = 40.
Page 17 - R' is given by R' = \ (see Lord RAYLEIGH, " On the Self-induction and Resistance of Straight Conductors," ' Phil. Mag.,' 1886), where R is the resistance of the wire for steady currents, / the length of the wire, /x the permeability, and p = 2irn, where n is the number of oscillations per second. Since the expression involves p...
Page 58 - The problem of the copper-tin alloys, one of the most interesting in metallurgy, still remains obscure, in spite of the amount of work that has been done on these alloys by RICHE, BEHRENS, ROBERTS-AUSTEN, and many other writers.