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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    Gravitation, Newton^s proof of, 37 Gravity, acceleration with mass, 135a oblique motion under, 22 • variation of value, 36 Gridiron pendulum, 190 Grotthus, hypothesis of, -^34 Guinea and feather experiment, 33 H. Hardness, 62 Heat, absorption of, 105 atomic, of bodies, 234 conversion into work, 242, 245 • effect upon‘Other properties of, matter, 215 dark, 295 determined by cooling, 245 distribution of, temporary, 220 distribution of, permanent, 220 mechanical, equivalent, 114 historic sketch, 248 law of Andrews, 452 latent, 235, 240 latent, miscellaneous applications of, 241 latent, various vapours, 238; liquids, 236 ; water, 239 Person's experiments, 237 specific, defined, 228 specific, determined by mixtures, 229, 229a specific, determined by cooling, 240 specific, Dulong and Petit's law, 234 specific, gases, 232 specific, influence of condition, 233 specific, liquids, 231 specific, method of Lavoisier and Laplace, 229b specific, solids, 230 total, 238 total, of water vapour, 238 Horse power, 249 Hydrometer, 8ia Hydrostatic pressure, 78a Hygrometer, wet and dry bulb, 238 I. Image, real, from concave mirror, 262 size compa^red with object, 266 Impact of bodies, 120, 121 Incandescent lamp, 446 Induction balance,Hughes's invention, 443 Induction, study of, by lines of force, 411 machines, 412 Inelastic bodies, impact of, 120 Insulators, 336 Intensity of sound, 139a Interference, 324 Isochronism, 131 Isotropic, defined, 54a J. Joule's experiment, 243 law, 431 K. Kilogrammetre, 99 L. Lake, freezing of, 225 Lavoisier and Laplace, 'methods of, 229b Length, unit of, 8 standard of, 187 Lenses, 276 double convex, 277 images formed by, 278 Lenz, Jaw of, 411 Level, spirit, 75 water, 74 Leyden jar, 353 batlery, 354 battery, discharge of, 355 Light, analogy with sound, 317 compared with heat, 250 compound nature of, 284, 285 dispersion of, 305 illuminating power, 259 inherent brightness, 257, 259 invisible, 252a movement in straight lines, 252b movement in straight lines, law of inverse squares, 255 oblique illumination, law of, 256 polarization of, b>’*Tourmaline,33i polarization of, by reflection, 332 polarization of, by double refrac- tion, 333 polarization of, longitudinal and transverse waves, 329 polarization of, mechanical ai'*a 330 reflection from plane mirrors, aoo reflection from curved mirrors, 261 reflection, total internal, 272 refraction, law of, 269 refraction, effect upon velocity, refraction, indices of, 271, 274 synthesis of, 288 theories as to nature of, 316
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