The Laws of Radiation and Absorption: Memoirs by Prévost, Stewart, Kirchhoff, and Kirchhoff and BunsenAmerican Book Company, 1901 - 131 pages |
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05 inch thick 36 inch 77 inch absorbed alum axis BALFOUR STEWART black body black heat blackened paper bright lines calcium caloric carbonate chloride compounds cone cooling crown glass 05 description of heat diaphragm diathermancy diathermanous direction discrete fluid equal equilibrium of heat flame galvanometer gave glass 05 inch group of experiments heat falling heat radiated high temperature hydrochloric acid intensity interior Kirchhoff lamp lampblack less lithium lithium salts Memoirs metals mica milligram observation particles pass pencil of rays perpendicular phenomena piece of rock PIERRE PRÉVOST pile placed plate of crown plate of glass plate of rock platinum wire polished plates portion potassium Professor Forbes quantity of heat radiant heat reflection of cold rock salt rock salt 18 roughened salt 18 inch screen selenite small angle CAD sodium sodium line source of heat spectra spectrum strontium substance suppose thermometer thickest piece thin plate tion vis viva wave length
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Page 40 - Considering, therefore, the heat of any temperature to consist of heterogeneous rays, we may state the law thus: The absorption of a plate equals its radiation, and that for every description of heat.
Page 41 - C, than was absorbed of the equally intense ray at A, in its passage between A and B. The amount of heat absorbed by the particles between B and C would therefore be different from that absorbed by the particles between A and B. But this cannot be ; for, on the hypothesis of an equal and independent radiation of each particle, the radiation of the particles between B and C is equal to that of the particles between A and B, and their absorption equals their radiation. Hence the radiation impinging...
Page 23 - ... only 15 per cent. The second group of experiments was designed to compare together the quantities of heat radiated at the same temperature from polished plates of the same substance, but of different thicknesses. The result of this group was, that while the difference between the radiating power of thick and thin glass is so small as not to be capable of being directly observed, there is a perceptible difference between the radiation from thick and thin mica, and a still more marked difference...
Page 122 - What, however, gives to the spectral analytical method a peculiar importance, is the fact that it almost infinitely exceeds the limits to which chemical analysis of matter has heretofore reached. It predicts for us the most valuable conclusions on the distribution and arrangement of geological substances in their formation. Already the few investigations, which this memoir contains, lead to the unexpected conclusion that not only potassium and sodium but also lithium and strontium must be counted...
Page 48 - That the flow of heat from the interior upon the surface of a substance of indefinite thickness, is proportional caeteris paribus to its index of refraction, and that for every description of heat.
Page 68 - ... we may imagine that part of the heat from the interior particles is allowed to pass, thereby swelling up the total radiation to that which it is by DULONG and PETIT'S law.
Page 104 - This axis carries on its lower end the mirror 0 and above it the arm // which serves as the handle to rotate the prism and the mirror. A small telescope is adjusted before the mirror which gives an image of a horizontal scale placed at a short distance. By rotating the prism we can cause to pass before the vertical thread of the telescope C the entire spectrum of the flame and bring every portion of the spectrum into coincidence with this thread. To every reading made on the scale there corresponds...
Page 41 - B with the same intensity as it had at A. But the quality of the ray at B will also be the same as its quality at A. For, if it were different, then either a greater or less proportion would be absorbed in its passage from B to C, than was absorbed of the equally intense ray at A, in its passage between A and B. The amount of heat absorbed by the particles between B and C would therefore be different from that absorbed by the particles between A and B. But this cannot be ; for, on the hypothesis...