Elements of Physics |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
207 | |
209 | |
213 | |
215 | |
220 | |
224 | |
230 | |
231 | |
38 | |
44 | |
45 | |
51 | |
58 | |
60 | |
66 | |
67 | |
72 | |
74 | |
78 | |
80 | |
84 | |
88 | |
90 | |
96 | |
97 | |
103 | |
104 | |
105 | |
107 | |
111 | |
114 | |
117 | |
123 | |
127 | |
131 | |
133 | |
139 | |
146 | |
152 | |
158 | |
162 | |
168 | |
174 | |
176 | |
182 | |
186 | |
188 | |
196 | |
201 | |
206 | |
237 | |
239 | |
245 | |
249 | |
251 | |
255 | |
257 | |
264 | |
269 | |
275 | |
281 | |
284 | |
290 | |
297 | |
301 | |
307 | |
313 | |
319 | |
320 | |
326 | |
332 | |
338 | |
343 | |
344 | |
350 | |
351 | |
357 | |
363 | |
369 | |
375 | |
381 | |
387 | |
392 | |
398 | |
404 | |
406 | |
417 | |
419 | |
420 | |
422 | |
425 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acceleration accordingly allow atmospheric attached attraction balance ball becomes body boiling bottle called cause centimeters closed column constant containing cord cubic cylinder density determined direction distance earth elasticity electric equal exert expand experiments fall feet follows force fork gases give given glass glass tube grams gravitation greater half heat held hence hold hydrogen inches increase iron kinetic energy known LABORATORY EXERCISE length light liquid lower machine magnetic mass means measured mercury metal meter molecules momentum motion moving particle pass pendulum piece piston plane plate position potential pounds pressure produced quantity raised represent rest resultant seen shown side solid solution sound square stand substance surface surface tension temperature tion tube unit vapor varies velocity vessel vibration volume walls waves weight wire
Popular passages
Page 140 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Page 36 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 413 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Page 414 - Henry, which is the induction in a circuit when the electromotive force induced in this circuit is one international volt while the inducing current varies at the rate of one Ampere per second.
Page iii - ... carried out even the humblest research without the spirit of science in some measure resting upon him. And that spirit may in part be caught even without entering upon an actual investigation in search of a new truth. The learner may be led to old truths, even the oldest, in more ways than one. He may be brought abruptly to a truth in its finished form, coming straight to it like a thief climbing over the wall; and the hurry and press of modern life tempt many to adopt this quicker way. Or he...
Page 36 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 64 - SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard.