 | American Philosophical Society - 1874 - 758 pages
...water one degree in temperature. The air has been heated under a constant pressure, and we have learned that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that required to raise the gas to the... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel - 1846 - 188 pages
...mass when mixed. Then the quantity of caloric gained by the water will be MC(T--«); for it is obvious that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a body any number of degrees must be proportional to its mass and capacity. 1° like manner the amount... | |
 | 1868 - 896 pages
...been introduced to express in a convenient way the lifting of one pound to the height of a foot. Thus, the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree Fahrenheit being taken as a standard, 772 foot-pounds constitute what is callud the mechanical... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
 | 1865 - 338 pages
...express in a convenient or systematic way the lifting of 771 pounds to the height of one foot. Thus the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken as a standard, 772 foot pounds statute, u what is called the mechanical equivalent... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...degree in temperature. The air has here been heated under a constant pressure, and we have learned, that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that required to raise the gas to the... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...degree in temperature. The air has here been heated under a constant pressure, and we have learned, that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that required to raise the gas to the... | |
 | 1864 - 670 pages
...foot-pound," has been introduced to express the lifting of one pound to the height of one foot. And the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken as the standard of measurement, 772 foot-pounds constitute what 18 termed the... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
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