| Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1879 - 616 pages
...l>f acted on by any forces external to the system provided these also are consistent with that law. The only assumption which is necessary for the direct...itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or laterj pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy. Now it is manifest... | |
| Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1879 - 626 pages
...be acted on by any forces external to the system provided these also are consistent with that law. The only assumption which is necessary for the direct proof is that the system, it' left to itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which... | |
| 1891 - 642 pages
...exceedingly interesting in connexion with Maxwell's fundamental supposition quoted in ยง 10 of my paper, " that the system if left to itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy ;"f an assumption which Maxwell... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1892 - 596 pages
...that every fundamental mode is essentially unstable. It is so if Maxwell's fundamental assumption* " that the system if left to itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy " is true. It seems to me quite... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894 - 1104 pages
...be acted on by any forces external to the system, provided these also are consistent with that law. The only assumption which is necessary for the direct...actual state of motion, will sooner or later pass through every phase .which is consistent with the equation of energy.' ' 4. Instead, however, of a... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894 - 1204 pages
...be acted on by any forces external to the system, provided these also are consistent with that law. The only assumption which is necessary for the direct...actual state of motion, will sooner or later pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy.' ' 4. Instead, however, of a single... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1902 - 874 pages
...generalised Lagrangian co-ordinates of tiny system whatever, with a finite or in6nitely great nnmber of degrees of freedom. The words in which he enunciated...motion, will, " sooner or later, pass [infinitely nearly f] through every phase which is " consistent with the equation of energy " (p. 714) and, again... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 588 pages
...influence of no " applied " force. is essentially unstable. It is so if Maxwell's fundamental assumption* "that the system if left to itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy " is true. It seems to me quite... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 581 pages
...10 to 17 added July 10, 1891. is essentially unstable. It is so if Maxwell's fundamental assumption* "that the system if left to itself in. its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy" is true. It seems to me quite... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 588 pages
...10 to 17 added July 10, 1891. is essentially unstable. It is so if Maxwell's fundamental assumption* "that the system if left to itself in its actual state of motion, will, sooner or later, pass through every phase which is consistent with the equation of energy " is true. It seems to me quite... | |
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