 ... that such a vessel is divided into two portions, A and B, by a division in which there is a small hole, and that a being, who can see the individual molecules, opens and closes this hole, so as to allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to...  Proceedings - Page 142by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1886Full view - About this book
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...slower ones to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the ternperature of B and lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. This is only one of the instances in which conclusions which we have drawn from our... | |
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...allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. This is only one of the instances in which conclusions which we have drawn from our... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 900 pages
...swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones from B to A. He will thus, without the expenditure of work, raise the temperature of B and...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermo-dynamics. By the above mode of reasoning, together with the conclusions drawn from our experience... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 922 pages
...swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones from B to A. He will thus, without the expenditure of work, raise the temperature of B and...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermo-dynamics. By the above mode of reasoning, together with the conclusions drawn from our experience... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Heat - 1884 - 394 pages
...molecules, opens and closes this hole, so as to allow only the swifter molecules to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. " This is only one of the instances in which conclusions, which we have drawn from... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1886 - 674 pages
...causing work to be performed are equal.' (148) " 'The student who thinks that he can form any idea of the meaning of this sentence is quite capable of explaining,..."Heat cannot of itself flow from a colder to a warmer bod}-," and then applies it in thermodynamic investigations, and essentially this statement, perhaps... | |
 | James Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 326 pages
...allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics."1 1 Theory of Heat, 1894, pp. 338 f. Now, what I think we may fairly deduce from this... | |
 | James Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 332 pages
...allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones to pass from B j to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise! the temperature of B and lower that of A, in contradic-/ tion to the second law of thermodynamics." 1 1 Theory of Heat, 1894, pp. 338 f. Now, what... | |
 | William Pingry Boynton - Kinetic theory of gases - 1904 - 308 pages
...to allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics." i Maxwell, "Theory of Heat," p. 328. CHAPTER III. GASES WHOSE MOLECULES HAVE DIMENSIONS.... | |
 | Sir James Hopwood Jeans, James Jeans - Kinetic theory of gases - 1904 - 376 pages
...allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower ones to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the...lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics." Thus Maxwell's sorting demon could effect in a very short time, what would probably... | |
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