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- The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.…
- In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists…
- Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and…
- If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and…
- The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the…
- We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation…
- The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations implies a perfect…
- So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in…
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