Lectures on some recent advances in physical science with a special lecture on force (1876)
Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 183
passes through thevarious and varying constituents of the earths atmo-sphere in each region of the globe; and therefore themost trustworthy experimental results have been suchas were obtained at considerable elevations in balloons,or on the tops of very high mountains, where there iscomparatively… … cylindrical part, and on the back, because this is anexceedingly bad radiator of heat, so that the instru- TRANSFORMA TION OF ENERGY. 157 ment loses by those sides very little of the heat whichit collects by the blackened side, which is a goodabsorber and is turned directly to the sun. This…
Force and energy · Matter · Heat · Spectrum analysis
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