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... Radiant Heat are well stated ; and the very process ( for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat by the two specific heats of air ) for which Mayer has received in some quarters such extraordinary praise -though it is in ...
... Radiant Heat are well stated ; and the very process ( for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat by the two specific heats of air ) for which Mayer has received in some quarters such extraordinary praise -though it is in ...
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Peter Guthrie Tait. Experiments . Numerical value of the Dynamical Equivalent of Heat ... Heat - Only a portion of the Heat can be reconverted into Work . Carnot's ... Radiant Energy . Energy now in the Solar System , • 131 LECTURE VII ...
Peter Guthrie Tait. Experiments . Numerical value of the Dynamical Equivalent of Heat ... Heat - Only a portion of the Heat can be reconverted into Work . Carnot's ... Radiant Energy . Energy now in the Solar System , • 131 LECTURE VII ...
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... Radiant Heat . Dis- tinctive characters of a particular ray . Application of Carnot's principle to establish the equality of radiating and absorbing powers . Black , transparent , and perfectly reflecting bodies , 185 LECTURE IX ...
... Radiant Heat . Dis- tinctive characters of a particular ray . Application of Carnot's principle to establish the equality of radiating and absorbing powers . Black , transparent , and perfectly reflecting bodies , 185 LECTURE IX ...
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... heat had been matter , this is the sort of argument that a believer in the caloric theory would have used two pieces ... radiant heat , heat carried by convection - currents of air , and so on , and to remove every possible disturbing ...
... heat had been matter , this is the sort of argument that a believer in the caloric theory would have used two pieces ... radiant heat , heat carried by convection - currents of air , and so on , and to remove every possible disturbing ...
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... radiant heat , and so on - must , in order to become heat , cease to be motion . ' He actually says it must cease to be motion in order to become heat ! Then he makes another and a very curious statement , the absolute erroneousness of ...
... radiant heat , and so on - must , in order to become heat , cease to be motion . ' He actually says it must cease to be motion in order to become heat ! Then he makes another and a very curious statement , the absolute erroneousness of ...
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