 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 450 Seiten
...increases, its tendency to expand ; — and this definition, arrived at by induction from experience, is the foundation of the theory of the expansive action of heat. The first section of the paper is occupied chiefly with the demonstration of the first of the theorems... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 438 Seiten
...increases, its tendency to expand ; — and this definition, arrived at by induction from experience, is the foundation of the theory of the expansive action of heat. The first section of the paper is occupied chiefly with the demonstration of the first of the theorems... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 Seiten
...2-500 1 850 •837 Expansive Action of Heat. — Single-acting Expansive Steam Engine. 109 experience, is the foundation of the theory of the expansive action of heat. The first section of the paper is occupied chiefly with the demonstration of the first of the theorems... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 638 Seiten
...geometrical representation of the application to the particular * Silliman's Journal, September, 1853. case of heat and expansive power, of two axioms respecting...isothermal curves and curves of no transmission, it is necessary also to know the relation, for the substance in question, between the quantity of heat actually... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 418 Seiten
...a secies of Aclunl Energy, tlie presence of whick in a *ubstance a/ects, and in general inereases, its tendency to expand. And this definition, arrived...the theory of the expansive action of heat SECTION IV.—OF TEMPERATURE, THE MECHANICAL HYPOTHESIS OF MOLECULAR VORTICES, AND THE NUMERICAL COMPUTATION... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1881 - 644 Seiten
...species of Actual Energy, tfie presence of which in a substance affects, and in general increases, Us tendency to expand. And this definition, arrived at...the theory of the expansive action of heat. SECTION IV.—OF TEMPERATURE, THE MECHANICAL HYPOTHESIS OF MOLECULAR VORTICES, AXD THE NUMERICAL COMPUTATION... | |
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The application of these axioms to Heat and Expansive Power virtually involves the following definition of expansive heat : — Expansive Heat is a species of Actual Energy, the presence of which in a substance affects, and in general increases, its tendency... 