 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...discovery has raised to the position of the grandest of known physical laws. He points out, however, only its application to mechanics. The actio agentis, as...velocity of the point on which it acts, is simply, in modem English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works. The subject for measurement here is precisely... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 914 pages
...sentence of his scholium already quoted (§ 263), in which he points out its application to mechanics.1 The actio agentis, as he defines it, which is evidently...velocity of the point on which it acts, is simply, in modem English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works. The subject for measurement here is precisely... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1878 - 480 pages
...discovery has raised to the position of the grandest of known physical laws. He points out, however, only its application to mechanics. The actio agentis, as...English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works, called the Power of the agent. The subject for measurement here is precisely the same as that for which... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - 1878 - 438 pages
...discovery has raised to the position of the grandest of known physical laws. He points out, however, only its application to mechanics. The actio agentis, as...English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works, called the Power of the agent. The subject for measurement here is precisely the same as that for which... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1879 - 572 pages
...in an admirably distinct and compact manner in the sentence of his scholium already quoted (§ 263), in which he points out its application to mechanics*....here is precisely the same as that for which Watt, Horse- a hundred years later, introduced the practical unit of a "Horsepower," or the rate at which... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - 1882 - 438 pages
...discovery has raised to the position of the grandest of known physical laws. He points out, however, only its application to mechanics. The actio agentis, as...component of the force, into the velocity of the point at which it acts, is simply, in modern English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works, called... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1888 - 569 pages
...n an admirably distinct and compact manner in the sentence of his scholium already quoted (§ 263), in which he points out its application to mechanics*....here is precisely the same as that for which Watt, Horse- a hundred years later, introduced the practical unit of a "Horsepower. power" or the rate at... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - 536 pages
...admirably distinct and compact manner in the sentence of his scholium already quoted (§ 263), in which ho points out its application to mechanics*. The actio...here is precisely the same as that for which Watt, none- a hundred years later, introduced the practical unit of a "Horsepower," or the rate at which... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1895 - 390 pages
...discovery has raised to the position of the grandest of known physical laws. He points out, however, only its application to mechanics. The actio agentis, as...component of the force into the velocity of the point at which it acts, is simply, in modern English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works, called... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1895 - 377 pages
...equivalent to the product of the effective component of the force into the velocity of the point at which it acts, is simply, in modern English phraseology, the rate at which the agent works, called the " power " of the agent. The subject for measurement here is precisely the same as that for... | |
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... its application to mechanics*. The actio agentis, as he defines it, which is evidently equivalent to the product of the effective component of the force, into the velocity of the point on which it acts, is simply, in modern English phraseology, the... 
