Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 457
ed by the ordinates correspondingto the temperatures of the junctions and the lines of themetals in the diagram. The direction of the current isfound by traversing the boundary so as always to keep thearea on the left. Heat will be absorbed wherever the currentsets from a lower to a higher… … THERMOPILE. 447 to these opposing electromotive forces must be subtracted,in order to get the resultant electromotive force, which willhave its direction determined by the boundarv of the largerarea. The diagram from Tait on the preceding page shows thethermoelectric properties of a number of the…
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