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The scientific papers of James Prescott Joule (1884)

Joule, James Prescott, 1818-1889, Scoresby, William, 1789-1857, Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898, Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 · London, Taylor and Francis · leaf 271

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r as is equal inthermal capacity to the cotton of the plug, in passing throughthe apparatus ■^. This, in the experiments with the stop-cock * To prove tliis, we have only to investigate tte convection of heatthrougli a prismatic solid of porous material, when a fluid entering it witha varying… … A to B, the temperature of this fluid as it enters at A being an arbitraryfunction F (f.) of the time. Then if v be the common temperature of theporous body and fluid passing through it, at a distance .r from the end A,we have dv _ J d-v 6 dv ,-■ V jt-^dPQdx ^^^ if k be the conducting power of the…

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