The London Edinburgh And Dublin Philosophical Magazine And Journal Of Science Vol 2

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Download or read book The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science The steam-engine having furnished us with a means of converting heat into a motive power, and our thoughts being thereby led to regard a certain quantity of work as an equivalent for the amount of heat expended in its production, the idea of establishing theoretically some fixed relation between a quantity of heat and the quantity of work which it can possibly produce, from which relation conclusions regarding the nature of heat itself might he deduced, naturally presents itself. Already, indeed, have many instructive experiments been made with this view; I believe, however, that they have not exhausted the subject, hut that, on the contrary, it merits the continued attention of physicists; partly because weighty objections lie in the way of the conclusions already drawn, and partly because other conclusions, which might render efficient aid towards establishing and completing the theory of heat, remain either entirely unnoticed, or have not as yet found sufficiently distinct expression. The most important investigation in connexion with this subject is that of S. Carnot. Later still, the ideas of this author have been represented analytically in a very able manner by Clapeyron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.