 The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of such bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energy is susceptible.  Elementary Chemistry - Page 182by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater - 1887 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 608 pages
...ascertained further that ' the total energy * Nature, vol. xv. p. 889. ' of any body, or system of bodies, is a quantity which can ' neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action ' of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any of ' the forms of which energy... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Heat - 1872 - 340 pages
...GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. ' The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any Conscrtiaticn of Energy. 93 mutual action of these ladies, though it may be transformed into any of... | |
 | William Garnett - Dynamics - 1879 - 330 pages
...has been stated by Clerk Maxwell as follows : — " The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Electric power - 1881 - 254 pages
...Energy. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. 24.] The total energy of any system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of those bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - English language - 1883 - 542 pages
...viva. It is a fundamental principle of Physics that the total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook - Physical optics - 1883 - 460 pages
...conservation of energy. Professor Maxwell ' states it thus : ' The total energy of a body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these i Heat: Text-books of Science. bodies, though it may be transformed into any... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1885 - 344 pages
...is the principle of the conservation of energy. This principle is thus stated by Clerk Maxwell *. " The total energy of any material system is a quantity...diminished by any action between " the parts of the system, thouyh it may be transformed into any " of the forms of which energy is susceptible." This principle... | |
 | Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - Apologetics - 1886 - 508 pages
...defines the principle of the conservation of forces: " The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of those bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energy... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - Evolution - 1886 - 494 pages
...is unattainable." * Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell says: " The total energy of any body or system of bodies, is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forces of which energy... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Dynamics - 1887 - 282 pages
...When stated in the following terms, the theory is termed the Principle of the Conservation of Energy. The total energy of any material system is a quantity...diminished by any action between the parts of the system. Deductions. — If external forces produce a change of configuration of the system which is resisted... | |
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