| 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 § 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1902 - 1190 pages
...force ; or quasi BOSOOTiCh atoms. ( I' ¿ ¿ 1900.] on the Dgnamical Theory of Heat and Light. 871 Maxwell • gave a demonstration extending it to the...will, “ sooner or later, pass [infinitely nearly t¿ through every phase which is ¿6 consistent with the equation of energy ‘ (p. 714) and, again... | |
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