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" If the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly hot substance be conceived to be divided into any number of equal parts, the effects of those parts in causing work to be performed are equal. "
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Page 143
by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1886
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A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences: Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy ...

John Pringle Nichol - Physics - 1860 - 942 pages
...are similarly circumstanced; and hence follows — 5. THE SECOND LAW OF ТНЕПМО-DTNAMICS. — If the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly...be conceived to be divided into any number of equal part?, the effects of those parts in causing work to be performed will be equal. — This law may be...
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Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a ..., Volume 2

Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1860 - 786 pages
...weight, or any other mode of motion, produces a definite quantity of heat according to this law. //' the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly hot substance be conceivfd to be difidcd into any numbers of equal parts, the effect of those parts in causing work...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers

William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1866 - 624 pages
...Jumiogeneous anil, uniformly Itot substance be conceived to be divided into any number of equal purts, the effects of those parts in causing work to be performed are equal. — This law may be considered as a particular case of a general law applicable to every kind of actual...
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A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines, Volume 2

Andrew Ure - 1867 - 918 pages
...falling weight, or any other mode of motion, produces a definite quantity of heat according to this law. If the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly...hot substance be conceived to be divided into any numbers ofeqiuil purls, the effect of those parts in causing work to be performed will be equal. —...
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The Student's Text-book of Electricity

Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1867 - 562 pages
...ratio of the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, it. Consequently, if the whole length of any submarine cable be conceived to be divided into any number of equal parts, the quantity of electricity stored up inductively in each section will be in the ratio of 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,...
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A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics ...

George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1873 - 752 pages
...or system cannot be altered by the mutual action of its parts." The second law he defines thus : " If the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly...effects of those parts in causing work to be performed will be equal." The application of certain principles of thermc-dynamics to various phenomena of the...
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Natural Philosophy for Beginners: With Numerous Examples, Part 2

Isaac Todhunter - Physics - 1877 - 450 pages
...Professor llankine in his Manual of the Steam Engine gives as the Second Law the following statement: if the total actual heat of a homogeneous and uniformly hot substance be conceived to he divided into any number of equal parts, the effects of these parts in causing work to be performed...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers

William John Macquorn Rankine - Heat engineering - 1878 - 746 pages
...similarly circumstanced; and hence follows — 241. The Second Law of I lit rnioil> iinniic M. — If the total actual heat of a homogeneous and, uniformly...those parts in causing work to be performed are equal. — This law may be considered as a particular case of a general law applicable to every kind of actual...
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Nature, Volume 17

Science - 1878 - 770 pages
...to assert our intuitive belief that— " If the absolute temperature of any uniformly hot substance be divided into any number of equal parts, the effects...those parts in causing work to be performed are equal" The student who thinks that he can form any idea of the meaning of this sentence is quite capable of...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 53

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1878 - 478 pages
...Thomson, FRS, M. Inst CE, ha* shown to be 461° below the zero of Fahrenheit's scale, absolute heat be divided into any number of equal parts the effects...of those parts in causing work to be performed are equalThe energy below the level of the temperature of the condenser n not available for the production...
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