...of energy is converted into energy of another kind. The heat engine may be a motive power engine, in which energy in the form of heat is converted into energy in the form of mechanical work ; or it may be one in which mechanical energy is transformed into the potential energy of a gas...

...contact b to the copper wire, etc., that is, in the opposite direction to the arrows *. In either case energy in the form of heat is converted into energy in the form of electricity. This phenomenon is known as the Sccbcck effect, after the man who discovered it. 39. In...

...contact b to the copper wire, etc., that is, in the opposite direction to the arrows i. In either case energy in the form of heat is converted into energy in the form of electricity. This phenomenon is known as the Secbeck effect, after the man who discovered it. 39. In...

...compressing it, until its temperature is the same as that of B; then by bringing the two bodies in o contact and developing, by a further expenditure of...cycles; and for each cycle a certain quantity of heat is abstracted from the source by the working substance, part of which is converted into work, and the...

...energy is converted into an energy of another kind. The heat engine may be a motive power engine, in which energy in the form of heat is converted into energy in the form of mechanical work; or it may be one in which mechanical energy is transformed into the potential energy of a gas....