Lectures on some recent advances in physical science, with a special lecture on force
By: by P. G. Tait ...
Edition: 3d ed., rev.
Publisher: Macmillan and co.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Force and energy; Matter -- Constitution; Heat; Spectrum analysis
Table of contents: title: I. Introductory.; title: II. The early history of energy.; title: III. Establishment of the conservation of energy.; title: IV. Transformation of the energy.; title: V. Transformation of heat into work.; title: VI. Transformation of energy.; title: VII. Sources and transference of energy.; title: VIII. Radiation and absorption.; title: IX-X. Spectrum analysis.; title: XI. Conduction of heat.; title: XII-XIII. Structure of matter.; title: XIV. Force.