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Electrical papers (1892)

Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925 · London : Macmillan · leaf 344

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e.m.f.s in the separate conductors,owing to their ends being at different temperatures, whose integralamounts are represented by the areas A^A.^a^/i-^ and B-^B.^b.^h-^, and whosedirections are, as before for the Peltier forces, downwards in thefigure, viz., from A^ to A^ in a (cold to hot), and… … to h at the hot junction, and its direction round the circuit thereforesimilar to that of the motion of the hands of a watch. These areas, by means of the relation, energy = E.M.r. x quantity (arelation whose meaning cannot be too carefully studied by those whothink electricity is energy, and by…

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