Miscellaneous Scientific Papers
Subtitle: From the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and Other Scientific and Philosophical Societies, and the Scientific ... With a memoir of the author by P. G. Tait
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: June 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781402171925
Subjects: physics,natural sciences,physics,heat engines,thermodynamics,miscellaneous scientific papers,William John Macquorn Rankine; Science / Physics
First sentence: IN the course of a series of investigations founded on a peculiar hypothesis respecting the molecular constitution of matter, I have obtained, among other results, an equation giving a very close approximation to the maximum elasticity of vapour in contact with its liquid at all temperatures that usually occur.