 Heat gradually travels from the end in the flame toward the hand. Apply your fingers successively at different points nearer and nearer the flame ; you find that the nearer you approach the flame the hotter the wire is. The flow of heat through an unequally...  The Principles of Physics - Page 294by Alfred Payson Gage - 1901 - 638 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 344 pages
...diffusion of heat are commonly recognised — Conduction, Convection, and Radiation. Conduction is the flow of heat through an unequally heated body...from places of higher to places of lower temperature. Convection is the motion of the hot body itself carrying its heat with it. If by this motion it is... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1880 - 866 pages
...conduction ; (2) by convection ; (3) by emanation or radiation. 171.—By conduction of heat ie meant the flow of heat through an unequally heated body...from places of higher to places of lower temperature ; or conduction may be defined to be the transfer of heat between two bodies, or parts of a body, which... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1883 - 464 pages
...nearer you approach the flame the hotter the wire is. The flow of heat through an unequally-heated body, from places of higher to places of lower temperature,...strike their neighbors and quicken their motion ; the hitter in turn quicken the motion of the next; and so on, until some of the motion may be finally communicated... | |
 | Theodore George Wormley - 1890 - 380 pages
...EQUALIZATION OF TEMPERATURE. May occur in three ways — 1. Conduction. 2. Convection. 3. Radiation. 1. Conduction. — The flow of heat through an unequally...from places of higher to places of lower temperature. Different bodies possess very different conducting powers with respect to heat. (a) Solids. — Copper... | |
 | Alexander Ritchie Leask - Ice - 1895 - 292 pages
...and nine times as great as it is at three times the distance. Conduction is the flow of heat along or through an unequally heated body from places of higher to places of lower temperature, or from one substance to another in contact with it. Convection is the motion of the hot body itself... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1898 - 420 pages
...nearer and nearer the flame ; you find that the nearer you approach the flame the hotter the wire is. The flow of heat through an unequally heated body,...conduction; the body through which it travels is called the conductor. The molecules of the wire in the flame have their motion quickened; they strike their... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1902 - 394 pages
...nearer and nearer the flame ; you find that the nearer you approach the flame, the hotter the wire is. The flow of heat through an unequally heated body,...conduction; the body through which it travels is called the conductor. The molecules of the wire in the flame have their motion quickened; they strike their... | |
 | Julius Rosbloom - Diesel motor - 1928 - 660 pages
...diffusion of heat are commonly recognized — Conduction, Convection, and Radiation. Conduction is the flow of heat through an unequally heated body...from places of higher to places of lower temperature. Convection is the motion of the hot body itself carrying its heat with it. If by this motion it is... | |
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