 The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible...  Matter and Motion - Page 60by James Clerk Maxwell - 1876 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 608 pages
...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 susceptible.' * These forms are very various. Impeded motion can reassert itself, not only as heat, but as electricity,... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 344 pages
...neither be increased nor diminished by any Conservation of Energy. 93 mutual action of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.' If by the application of mechanical force, heat, or any other kind of action to a body, or system of bodies,... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 346 pages
...quantity which can neither be increased nor diminislied by any mutual action of these bodies, tlwugh it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.' If by the application of mechanical force, heat, or any other kind of action to a body, or system of bodies,... | |
 | William Garnett - Dynamics - 1879 - 330 pages
...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 susceptible." There is probably no law of nature which stands upon a firmer basis than this Principle of the Conservation... | |
 | Engineering - 1880 - 546 pages
...j the total energy of the universe is a i quantity which can neither be increased i nor diminished, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. Energy is therefore as indestructible as matter. All the i recent advances in the science of heat i... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Electric power - 1881 - 254 pages
...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...which energy is susceptible. If, by the action of some external agent, the configuration of the system is changed, then, if the forces of the system are such... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1050 pages
...give the statement of the principle as I find it in Clerk Maxwell's little book on Matter and Motion : The total energy of any material system is a quantity...transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.4 Assuming the truth of this principle, the reader, whether he is able thoroughly to grapple... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...the statement of the principle as I find it in Clerk Maxwell's little book on " Matter and Motion :" The total energy of any material system is a quantity...any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.* * Page 60. NEW SMUES.-VOL. XXXVII., No. 2 Assuming the truth of this principle, the reader, whether... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1883 - 924 pages
...the statement of the principle as I find it in Clerk Maxwell's little book on " Matter and Motion :" The total energy of any material system is a quantity...any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.* * Page 60. NEW SERIES. -VOL. XXXVII., No. 2 Assuming the truth of this principle, the reader, whether... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook - Physical optics - 1883 - 462 pages
...neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these 1 Heat: Text-books of Science. bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.' We are to consider light, then, as one mode in which the energy of a body becomes known to us ; and... | |
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