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... mass of the readers of the Review unless I were to give them in the main the form of a sketch , partly historical , of the whole subject . I am not conscious of having anywhere stretched a point to claim for Joule or Thomson what I did ...
... mass of the readers of the Review unless I were to give them in the main the form of a sketch , partly historical , of the whole subject . I am not conscious of having anywhere stretched a point to claim for Joule or Thomson what I did ...
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... masses , and the state of the earth's interior . Availability of energy , and loss of availability . To restore the availability of one portion of energy , another portion must be degraded . Dissipation of energy . Sources of ...
... masses , and the state of the earth's interior . Availability of energy , and loss of availability . To restore the availability of one portion of energy , another portion must be degraded . Dissipation of energy . Sources of ...
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... mass left to itself moves uniformly . That is , equal times are the times in which such a mass describes equal spaces . Of space , we can ascertain by observation the properties . But we cannot inquire into the actual nature of either ...
... mass left to itself moves uniformly . That is , equal times are the times in which such a mass describes equal spaces . Of space , we can ascertain by observation the properties . But we cannot inquire into the actual nature of either ...
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... mass during or after its descent . Yet the elevated mass possesses , in virtue of its eleva- tion alone , a power of doing work or mischief , which it has lost entirely when it has descended as far as it can . By the mere fact , then ...
... mass during or after its descent . Yet the elevated mass possesses , in virtue of its eleva- tion alone , a power of doing work or mischief , which it has lost entirely when it has descended as far as it can . By the mere fact , then ...
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... mass of the body is the change of motion produced by one of the forces , and BC multiplied by the same mass represents the change of motion 39 THE EARLY HISTORY OF ENERGY .
... mass of the body is the change of motion produced by one of the forces , and BC multiplied by the same mass represents the change of motion 39 THE EARLY HISTORY OF ENERGY .
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