| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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. —... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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