 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1877 - 210 ページ
...definite and most important proposition : — '7%e immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion.1 The immense consequences of this statement we shall presently consider, after we have briefly... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 ページ
...heat engines. It is expressed in the following sentence: — ' The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' HEAT IS PRODUCED BY THE AGITATION OF THE MOLECULES OF BODIES. 33. After the experiments of Rumford... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 570 ページ
...its parts must have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. " Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles... | |
 | 1883 - 594 ページ
...now let us for a moment consider the characteristics of some of these forces. Sir Humphrey Davy says that the immediate cause of the phenomena of heat...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. We know that all molecular movement is accompanied by the evolution of heat to a greater or leas degree.... | |
 | American Dental Association - 1883 - 488 ページ
...now, let us for a moment consider the characteristics of some of these forces. Sir Humphry Davy says that the immediate cause of the phenomena of heat...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. We know that all molecular motion is accompanied by the evolution of heat to a greater or less degree.... | |
 | James Prescott Joule - 1884 - 706 ページ
...heat is much less than that of water. It was therefore with good reason that Davy drew the inference that " the immediate cause of the phenomena of heat...as the laws of the communication of motion"*. The researches of Dulong on the specific heat of elastic fluids were rewarded by the discovery of the remarkable... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 394 ページ
...In 1812 he enunciated this proposition :— " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." When Davy was in a position to make that statement he had only to take it in addition to the second... | |
 | William Barnet Le Van - 1884 - 192 ページ
...nature of heat, saying, " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion ; and tho laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." The basis of this opinion wad the same that hail been noted by Ruml'ord. Dr. Mayer of Heilbrouu, in 1842,... | |
 | 1885 - 480 ページ
...disturbance. And in 1812, Davy announced the axiom. " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." But all the while, as late as 1840, these ideas were laughed at as extravagancies, when it was made... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 400 ページ
...fact, in 1812 he enounces this proposition : — ' The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Now, we see at a glance to what an immense extent the science had been advanced in Davy's time. When... | |
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The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same, as the laws of the communication of motion. 
