 While work can always be converted into heat, heat can only be converted into work under certain limitations. For every practical purpose the work is worth the most, and when we speak of equivalents, we use the word in the same sort of special sense as...  The Canadian Record of Science - Page 981885Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 954 pages
...limitations. For every practical purpose the work is worth the most, and when we speak of equivalents we use the word in the same sort of special sense as that...therefore, manifest that, as the temperature of the boiler can not be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilize all the energy which, according to the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 1240 pages
...regard also to the second law. According to that law the fraction of the total energy which can bo converted into work depends upon the relative temperatures...cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilise all the energy which, according to the first law of Thermo-dynamics, is resident in the coal.... | |
 | Society of Engineers (London, England) - 1886 - 248 pages
...contrary, that there is no great margin left for improvement. The noble and learned president said that " the fraction of the total energy which can be converted...relative temperatures of the boiler and condenser," and that "it is impossible to utilise all the energy which, according to the first law of thermos-dynamics,... | |
 | John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1900 - 624 pages
...limitations. For every practical purpose the work is worth the most, and when we speak of equivalents, we use the word in the same sort of special sense as that...cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilise all the energy which, according to the first law of Thermo-dynamics, is resident in the coal.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 954 pages
...involve dissi patioii of energy. If not, the transformation is absolutely excluded S. Mis. 33 28 433 The fraction of the total energy which can be converted into work, according to the second law, depends on the difference of the initial and final temperatures. In optics,... | |
 | Desert Institute on the Mediterranean Littoral - 1957 - 628 pages
...limitations. For every practical purpose the work is worth the most, and when we speak of equivalents, we use the word in the same sort of special sense as that...cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilise all the energy which, according to the first law of Thermo-dynamics, is resident in the coal.... | |
 | 1884 - 338 pages
...Not many years ago calculations were plentiful demonstrating the inefficiency of the steam engine on the basis of a comparison of the work actually got...sounder view of the matter, the efficiency of the steam engine is found to 1« so high that there is no great margin remaining for improvement. The higher... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 958 pages
...involve clissi pal uin of energy. If not, the transformation is absolutely excluded S. Mis. 33 28 433 The fraction of the total energy which can be converted into work, according to the second law, depends on the difference of the initial and final temperatures. In optics,... | |
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