 The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes, that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point, enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity...  The Theory of Heat - Page 74by Thomas Preston - 1894 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1851 - 384 pages
...PRINCIPIIS MECHANICIS DERIVARE LICERET." The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes, that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus...oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1850 - 398 pages
...be that which assumes, that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point, enveloped ly an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position...oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.... | |
 | 1851 - 420 pages
...PRIKCIPIIS MECHANICIS DEHIVARE LICERET." The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes, that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus...oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.... | |
 | 1862 - 458 pages
...which assumes that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point, enveloped by an clastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive...oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis quantity of heat is the ci« viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations."... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1864 - 368 pages
...retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from ilie centrifugal force of those atmospheres, revolving...oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 638 pages
...VORTICES. 2. The hypothesis of molecular vortices may be defined to be that which assumes — tliat each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central...those atmospheres, revolving or oscillating about tlmr nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 260 pages
...position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heal arises from the centrifugal foree of those atmospheres, revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to _this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis twa jof_the molecular. revolutions or oscilLiti'jus.... | |
 | 1886 - 540 pages
...Magazine, 1879, p. 337. t Talt's Historical Sketch of Thermodynamics, p. VOL. XXXTV.— No. 5—29 to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those...oscillating about their nuclei or central points.* From this principle be deduced all the more important equations pertaining to heat — a fact which... | |
 | Osborne Reynolds - 1892 - 236 pages
...came as a surprise. Rankine founded his theory on the " Hypothesis of Molecular Vortices " — " thal each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central...oscillating about their nuclei or central points" " According to this hypothesis," Rankine proceeds, " quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular... | |
 | Allan Douglas Risteen - 1895 - 240 pages
...because he was the first to develop it by mathematical methods. The hypothesis of molecular vortices assumes "that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus...oscillating about their nuclei or central points."* He does not attempt to decide " whether the elastic atmospheres are continuous, or consist of discrete... | |
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