Heat Considered as a Mode of MotionD. Appleton, 1867 - 541 pages |
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absorbed absorption Acetic ether action amount of heat Amylene aqueous vapour atmosphere atoms augmented ball beam bismuth Bisulphide of carbon body boiling brass bright bands calorific carbonic acid cause chilled Chloroform cold colour combustion condensation copper cube cylinder deflection degrees diathermic distance earth effect emitted energy ether ethereal waves expansion experiment experimental tube feet flask force friction galvanometer gases glacier glass hence hydrogen inches iodine John Herschel Joule lampblack latter lecture lens light liquid luminous mass mechanical Melloni melted metal millims mirror motion move needle obscure rays observe obtained olefiant gas opaque oxygen particles pass plate platinum portion pressure produced quantity of heat radiant heat radiation rocksalt screen sensible solar solid sound source of heat space spectrum spiral substance Sulphuric ether surface temperature thermo-electric pile thermometer thickness tion transparent velocity vessel vibrations waves weight wire
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Page 381 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 472 - I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the...
Page 501 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Page 113 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity and through the greatest space ; that in fluids and...
Page 25 - It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the by-standers, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire.
Page 70 - Fahrenheit's thermometer — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change in its capacity for heat...
Page 113 - ... it is evident that the particles of matter must have space between them ; and since every body can communicate the power of expansion to a body of a lower temperature, that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles, it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion ; but, as there is no change in the position of its parts as long as its temperature is uniform, the motion, if it exist, must be a vibratory or undulatory motion, or a motion of the particles round...
Page 71 - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally,' he says, ' brought to the great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, What is heat — is there any such thing as an igneous fluid? Is there anything that...
Page 39 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Page 137 - The geyser basin, however, rests upon the summit of a mound about 40 feet high, and it is evident, from mere inspection, that the mound has been deposited by the geyser. But in building up this mound the spring must have formed the tube which perforates the mound, and hence the conclusion that the geyser is the architect of its own tube.