Elements of PhysicsH. Holt, 1902 - 426 pages |
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Page 140 - body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation can not 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
Page 413 - The International Volt is the electromotive force that, steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one international ohm, will produce a current of one international ampere. The International Coulomb is the quantity of electricity transferred by a current of one international ampere in one second. The International Farad,
Page 41 - perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed
Page 413 - 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
Page 414 - of induction, 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 41 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed.'
Page 36 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed.
Page 64 - Specific Gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body
Page 413 - is the capacity of a condenser which is charged to a potential of one international volt by one international coulomb of electricity. The
Page 142 - there is at the same time production of heat in quantity exactly proportional to the quantity of motive power destroyed. Reciprocally, whenever there is destruction of heat there is production of motive power. '' We can then establish the general proposition that motive