Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 173
he heat of thebody away less rapidly than the air of the room, the clothwill feel warm by contrast. If the right hand be held a few minutes in a cold bathand the left in a hot one, and both be then plunged intotepid water, the water will feel warm to the right hand butcold to the left, for the… … Fig. 128. temperature. The few exceptions are confined to smallranges of temperature. The expansion of solids may be illustrated by the appa-ratus shown in Fig. 128. AB is a metal bar fixed at A andresting at B on a minute cylinder, which is free to roll on theplate BO, and carries a pointer, P. If…
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