The conservation of energy
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2024 with the help of original edition published long back [1874]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (336)
- THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.
- NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. WHAT IS ENERGY?
- Our Ignorance of Individuals.
- Action and Reaction, Equal and Opposite.
- In a Vessel of Goldfish.
- In a Rifle.
- In a Falling Stone.
- The Rifle further considered.
- The Rifle Ball possesses Energy.
- Definition of Work.
- Relation between Velocity and Energy.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II. MECHANICAL ENERGY AND ITS CHANGE INTO HEAT.
- Energy of Position. A Stone high up.
- A Head of Water.
- A Cross-bow bent. A Watch wound up.
- Advantage of Position.
- Transmutations of Visible Energy.—A Kilogramme shot upwards.
- The Inclined Plane.
- Functions of a Machine.
- Principle of Virtual Velocities.
- What Friction does.
- When Motion is destroyed, Heat appears.
- Heat a species of Motion.
- Heat a Backward and Forward Motion.
- Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III. THE FORCES AND ENERGIES OF NATURE: THE LAW OF CONSERVATION.
- Gravitation.
- Elastic Forces.
- Force of Cohesion.
- Force of Chemical Affinity.
- Remarks on Molecular and Atomic Forces.
- Electricity: its Properties.
- Electric Induction.
- The Electric Current.
- Its Magnetic Effects.
- Its Heating Effect.
- Its Chemical Effect.
- Attraction and Repulsion of Currents.
- Attraction and Repulsion of Magnets.
- Induction of Currents.
- List of Energies.
- Energy of Visible Motion.
- Visible Energy of Position.
- Heat Motion.
- Molecular Separation.
- Atomic or Chemical Separation.
- Electrical Separation.
- Electricity in Motion.
- Radiant Energy.
- Law of Conservation.
- CHAPTER IV. TRANSMUTATIONS OF ENERGY.
- Energy of Visible Motion.
- Visible Energy of Position.
- Absorbed Heat.
- Chemical Separation.
- Units of Heat developed by Combustion in Oxygen.
- Electrical Separation.
- Electricity in Motion.
- Radiant Energy.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V. HISTORICAL SKETCH: THE DISSIPATION OF ENERGY.
- Heraclitus on Energy.
- Democritus on Atoms.
- Aristotle on a Medium.
- The Ideas of the Ancients were not Prolific.
- Descartes, Newton, and Huyghens on a Medium.
- Bacon on Heat.
- Principle of Virtual Velocities.
- Rise of true Conceptions regarding Work.
- Perpetual Motion.
- Theory of Conservation.
- Dissipation of Energy.
- Natural Energies and their Sources.
- Fuel.
- Food.
- Head of Water.
- Tidal Energy.
- Native Sulphur, &c.
- Air and Water in Motion.
- The Sun—a Source of High Temperature Heat.
- A Perpetual Light Impossible.
- Is the Sun an Exception?
- Origin of the Sun’s Heat.
- Probable Fate of the Universe.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI. THE POSITION OF LIFE.
- Twofold nature of Equilibrium.
- Mechanical Instability.
- Chemical Instability.
- Machines are of two kinds.
- An Animal is a delicately-constructed Machine.
- Life is like the Commander of an Army.
- Organized Tissues are subject to Decay.
- Difference between Animals and Inanimate Machines.
- Ultimate Dependence of Life upon the Sun.
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX.
- CORRELATION OF VITAL WITH CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL FORCES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CORRELATION OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL FORCES.
- THE CORRELATION OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL FORCES.
- FOOTNOTES:
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