Let a hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what is the number of chances against one that all the molecules... Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 3311875Full view - About this book
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875 - 712 pages
...theory of the dissipation of energy rests. Take however another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let a hermetically sealed glass...contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1911 - 628 pages
...energy rests. Take, however, another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let an hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 621 pages
...energy rests. Take, however, another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let an hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
| Sir Joseph Larmor - 632 pages
...energy rests. Take, however, another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let an hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
| 1892 - 624 pages
...energy rests. Take, however, another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let an hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
| 1892 - 608 pages
...energy rests. Take, however, another case, in which the probability may be readily calculated. Let an hermetically sealed glass jar of air contain 2,000,000,000,000 molecules of oxygen, and 8,000,000,000,000 molecules of nitrogen. If examined any time in the infinitely distant future, what... | |
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