If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with the same temperatures... Cyclopædic science simplified - Page 205by John Henry Pepper - 1877Full view - About this book
| 1888 - 932 pages
...foot-pounds per centigrade degree, and in metrical units to +25 kilogramme-metres per calorie (see HEAT).] IL If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physiml and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much... | |
| De Volson Wood - 1889 - 506 pages
...second law : "Pnop. II. (Carnot and Clausius).— If an engine be #uch that, when it is worked backward, the physical and mechanical agencies in every part...produced by any thermodynamic engine, with the same source and refrigemtor. from a gicen quantity of heat." (Thomson's Papers, p. 178.) Credit is here... | |
| De Volson Wood - 1889 - 476 pages
...Clausins). — Tf an engine be such thai, when it is worked backward, the physical and mechanical agenciet in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can he prodar,'d by any thcrmodynamic engine, with the same souree and refrigerator, from a given quantity... | |
| De Volson Wood - 1889 - 500 pages
...backward, the physical and mechanical agenciet in every part ofits motions are all reversed, it produces a* much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with the sfimt source mid refrigerator, from a given quantity ofhfat." (Thomson's Pnpers, p. 178.) Credit is... | |
| 1890 - 956 pages
...are generated. Law II. (Carnot and Clausius.) If an engine be such that, when it it worked backirard. the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reverted, it products as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any tfiermo-dynamic engine, with... | |
| Henry Adams - 1891 - 338 pages
...temperature of the source of heat and the lowest surrounding temperatures. — •' Practical Engineer.' If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards,...source and refrigerator, from a given quantity of heat. — Sir W. Thomson. 302. CARNOT'S LAW OR FUNCTION (1824). The ratio of the maximum mechanical effect... | |
| Peter Alexander - 1892 - 226 pages
...in the first portion of his statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which we repeat : — " If 'an engine be such that when it is worked backwards,...agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed," such an engine is said to be reversible. That is, if at any point of the direct cycle the body is receiving... | |
| George Frederick Barker - 1892 - 932 pages
...(Thomson.) The second law relates to the transformation of heat into work. It may be stated as follows ; "If an engine be such that when it is worked backwards...mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all re versed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine, with... | |
| Peter Alexander - 1892 - 228 pages
...the first portion of his statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which we repeat : — " // an engine be such that when it is worked backwards,...agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed" such an engine is said to be reversible. That is, if at any point of the direct cycle the body is receiving... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1892 - 392 pages
...Second Law of Thermodynamics. — If an engine be such that, -when it is worked backwards, the physi:al and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed (see § 89), it produces as much mcchani.al effect as can be produced by any thermodynamic engine,... | |
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