 | Richard Wormell - 1877 - 192 pages
...the same limits of temperature. This proposition is enunciated by Sir W. Thomson as follows : — ' If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards,...physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motion are . all reversed, it produces as much .mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 392 pages
...for a heatengine, an absolute definition of temperature, the effect of pressure on the melting-points of solids, and innumerable important groups of associated...agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed (see § 89), it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 392 pages
...for a heatengine, an absolute definition of temperature, the effect of pressure on the melting-points of solids, and innumerable important groups of associated...are included in the statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.—If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical... | |
 | 1886 - 542 pages
...page 178 of his Mathematical and Physical Papers, the following : " Prop. II (Carnot and Clausius). If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards,...mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are reversed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with... | |
 | 1888 - 932 pages
...foot-pounds per centigrade degree, and in metrical units to +25 kilogramme-metres per calorie (see HEAT).] IL If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physiml and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much... | |
 | 1890 - 956 pages
...are generated. Law II. (Carnot and Clausius.) If an engine be such that, when it it worked backirard. the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reverted, it products as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any tfiermo-dynamic engine, with... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1892 - 392 pages
...for a heatengine, an absolute def1nition of temperature, the effect of pressure on the melting-points of solids, and innumerable important groups of associated...engine be such that, -when it is worked backwards, the physi:al and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed (see § 89), it produces... | |
 | Peter Alexander - 1892 - 226 pages
...in the first portion of his statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which we repeat : — " If 'an engine be such that when it is worked backwards,...agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed," such an engine is said to be reversible. That is, if at any point of the direct cycle the body is receiving... | |
 | George Frederick Barker - 1892 - 932 pages
...(Thomson.) The second law relates to the transformation of heat into work. It may be stated as follows ; "If an engine be such that when it is worked backwards...mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all re versed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with... | |
 | Peter Alexander - 1892 - 228 pages
...the first portion of his statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which we repeat : — " // an engine be such that when it is worked backwards,...agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed" such an engine is said to be reversible. That is, if at any point of the direct cycle the body is receiving... | |
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If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed (see § 89), it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with the same... 
