Lessons in elementary physics / by Balfour Stewart.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1895
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Credit: Lessons in elementary physics / by Balfour Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX {The references arc lo the numbering of the paragraphs.) A Absorbents, good and bad for heat, 302 Absorption of gases, 97 Acceleration, unit of, 12a Acoustics, definition of, 130 Adhesion, 54 Air-pump, 93 Air*thermometer, advantage of, 185 Amber, 335 Ampere’s laws, 4fX) hypothesis, 406 Amplitude of sound waves, 137 Analyser, 331 Annealing, 63 Arc lamp, 447 Artesian wells, 76 Astatic galvanometer, 397 Atmosphere, the, 86 buoyancy of, 92 electricity of, 357 resistance of, iig weight of, 87 Atom, the, 2 Atomic heat of bodies, 234 Atwood’s machine, 39 11 balance, principle of, 52 compensation, the, 191 Balloons, 92 Barometer, the, 83 Batteries, bichromate, 391 Bunsen’s, 383 constant, Tlanicll’s, 388 Grove's, 389 Batteries, Leclanche, the, 392 secondary, 444 voltaic, early history of, 379 voltaic, simple form, 380 Battery, effect of size of plates, 422 Eeydenjar, 354 Beats, 161C Bodies, atomic heat of, 234 position of in the magnetic field, . . 363 Boiling point, 203 elTect of altitude, 204a effect of dissolved air, 206 elTect of dissolved substances, 207 effect of nature of containing vessel, 205 efTect of pressure, 204a temperature of, 203 temperature of various solutions, 203 Boyle’s law, 90 apparatus for proving, 90 Bramah press, 72 Breezes, land and sea, 227 Brittleness, 61 Buoyancy of air, 92 C Camera obscura, 279 Capacity, unit of, 10 Capillarity, phenomena of, 82 laws of, 82a Carnot, principle of, 247 “ C. G. S. system, i la Charles, law of, 182 Chemical attraction, 6 afTmily, 54 separation, 109
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