Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 207
east, and the reverse. When the bulb was blackened by smoke, the thermometerindicated the greatest change of temperature, and whencovered with leaves of biass, it indicated the least change. Explain Leslies method of determining the reflecting power of different bodies.What did Leslie find to be… … Emission Power. 201. The Emission Power of a body is its capacity toemit, or radiate the heat which it contains. In determining the emission power, Leslie employed theapparatus shown in Fig. 141. In this case, instead ofcovering the bulb of the thermometer with layers of thesubstances to be…
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