A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 287
unit oftime when the electric current isof unit intensity.If, then, Vx and V2 represent in volts the potentials of thetwo terminals of a conductor forming part of a circuit, and Cdenotes in amperes the intensity of the current passing betweenthem, C{V1— V^)T watts will represent the energy… … Fig. SO. 1 *■ r V\~Virelation 6 = x - Kin ohms, we have, W=C2RT- 107 ergs. The mechanical equivalent of heat which is the number ofunits of work required to be expended to heat one gram ofwater through one degree centigrade has been found, by experi-ment, to be about 4.16 x io7 ergs. ABSOLUTE…
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