 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1848 - 364 pages
...opinions. The endeavour to master the meaning of that important, comprehensive, and expressive phrase, " an axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions," was the mental difficulty ; in that consists the requisite mental labour. It is not too much to add,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pages
...afterwards states that the influence which is present in the electric current may be described15 as an axis of power, having contrary forces exactly equal in amount in contrary directions. Having arrived at this point, Faraday rightly wished to reject the term poles, and other words which... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1839 - 614 pages
...never been resolved into simpler or elementary influences, and may perhaps best be conceived of as an axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions. 518. Passing to the consideration of electro-chemical decomposition, it appears to me that the effect... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1839 - 606 pages
...Dr. Faraday has happily designated the electric current, whether in metals, or liquids, or air, as " An axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions." ยง 751. The polarity of the arrangement, when in a state of action, is well illustrated by interposing... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...axis of electric power superinduced by the current. The electric current is looked upon by Faraday as an axis of power, having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary direction!. (315) According to Faraday's views then, the determining force is * Experimental Researches,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1848 - 368 pages
...opinions. The endeavour to master the meaning of that important, comprehensive, and expressive phrase, " an axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions," was the mental difficulty ; in that consists the requisite mental labour. It is not too much to add,... | |
 | Henry M. Noad - 1849 - 534 pages
...axis of electric power superinduced by the current. The electric current is looked upon by Faraday as an axis of power, having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions. (315) According to Faraday's views then, the determining force is * Experimental Researches, 618, 524.... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 620 pages
...thus stated. Let two rings, in planes at right angles to each other, represent them, as in Plate IV fig. 1. If a current of electricity be sent round...their mutual direction, that they are separated by aright line perpendicular to both. The meaning of the words above, when applied to the electric current,... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 614 pages
...thus stated. Let two rings, in planes at right angles to each other, represent them, as in Plate IV fig. 1. If a current of electricity be sent round...forces exactly equal in amount in contrary directions" (5 170- The line of magnetic force may be described in precisely the same terms ; and these two axes... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 pages
...axis of electric power superinduced by the current. The electric current is looked upon by Faraday as an axis of power, having - contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions. (466) According to Faraday's views (Experimental Eesearehes, 518, 524), then, the determining force... | |
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It has never been resolved into simpler or elementary influences, and may perhaps best be conceived of as an axis of power having contrary forces, exactly equal in amount, in contrary directions. 
