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Applications of energy : nineteenth century
- Title
- Applications of energy : nineteenth century / edited by R. Bruce Lindsay.
- Publication
- Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : Distributed by Halsted Press, ©1976.
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- Additional Authors
- Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-1985.
- Description
- xi, 420 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Benchmark papers on energy ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Benchmark papers on energy ; 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Part I. The pioneer work of Helmholtz -- On the conversion of energy / H. Von Helmholtz -- Part II. Contributions of Clausius, Thomson, Rankine, Regnault, and Joule -- On the motive power of heat and on the laws which can be deduced from it for the theory of heat / R. Clausius -- On the dynamical theory of heat, with numerous results deduced from Mr. Joule's equivalent of a thermal unit and M. Regnault's observations on steam / W. Thomson ;On an absolute thermometric scale founded on Carnot's theory of the motive power of heat, and calculated from Regnault's observations /W. Thomson -- On the general law of the transformation of energy ; On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat and the theory of thermodynamic engines / W.J.M. Rankine -- The specific heats of elastic fluids / H.V. Regnault -- On the thermal effects of fluids in motion / J.P. Joule and W. Thomson -- Part III. Energy in cosmical physics -- Celestial dynamics / J.R. Mayer -- On the mechanical energies of the solar system /W. Thomson -- Contraction theory of the sun's heat / H. Von Helmholtz -- Part IV. Energy in electricity and magnetism -- Energy effects in electricity and magnetism / H. Von Helmsholtz -- On the theory of electro-magnetic induction ; Application of the principle of mechanical effect to the measurement of electro-motive forces, and of galvanic resistances, in absolute units ; On the mechanical theory of electrolysis / W. Thomson -- On the work performed and the heat generated in a conductor by a stationary current / R. Clausius -- On a mechanical theory of thermo-electric currents / W. Thomson -- Part V. Energy in the field -- On energy and stress in the electromagnetic field / J.C. Maxwell -- On the transfer of energy in the electromagnetic field / J.H Poynting -- Energy transfer in elastic radiation / J.W. Strutt -- Part VI. The science of energetics -- Outlines of the science of energetics / W.J.M. Rankine -- Studies in energetics : II. Fundamentals of general energetics / W. Ostwald -- Attack on the new energetics / M. Planck -- Energy and thermodynamics / H. Poincare -- Part VII. Progress in equilibrium thermodynamics -- Graphical methods in the thermodynamics of fluids ; On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances / J.W. Gibbs -- Methods of developing thermodynamics / M. Planck.
- ISBN
- 0879332271
- 9780879332273
- 0470151404
- 9780470151402
- LCCN
- 76011739
- OCLC
- ocm02137249
- 2137249
- SCSB-112788
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library