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Benjamin Thompson-- Count Rumford : Count Rumford on the nature of heat /
Men of Physics: Benjamin Thompson�a�₄Count Rumford: Count Rumford on the Nature of Heat presents the life and works of Count Rumford, an American-born British physicist and inventor. This book is divided in two parts. The first part gives a biographical sketch of Count Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Pergamon Press,
1967.
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| Colección: | Men of physics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Men of Physics Benjamin Thompson-Count Rumford: Count Rumford on the Nature of Heat; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; PART I; A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF COUNT RUMFORD, BENJAMIN THOMPSON (1753-1814); INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. PERSPECTIVE; CHAPTER 2. THE CALORIC THEORY; Thermal Expansion; Specific Heat; Changes of State; The Communication of Heat; Heat from Mechanical Work; Discussion; PART 2; CHAPTER 3. THE PROPAGATION OF HEAT IN FLUIDS; Convection; The Propagation of Heat in Fluids (Chapter 1); CHAPTER 4. HEAT BY FRICTION.
- An Experimental Inquiry concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by FrictionExperiment No. 1; Experiment No. 2; Experiment No. 3; Experiment No. 4; Description of the Figures; CHAPTER 5. THERMAL EXPANSION; An account of some new Experiments on the Temperature of Water at its Maximum Density; CHAPTER 6. THE WEIGHT OF HEAT; An Inquiry concerning the Weight ascribed to Heat; CHAPTER 7. WATER AS A NONCONDUCTOR OF HEAT; Inquiries concerning the Mode of the Propagation of Heat in Liquids; CHAPTER 8. PROPAGATION OF HEAT IN VARIOUS SUBSTANCES.
- Of the Propagation of Heat in various substancesExperiment No. 1; Experiment No. 2; Experiments No. 3, 4, 5, and 6; Experiment No. 16; CHAPTER 9. HEAT AS A MODE OF MOTION; Of the Slow Progress of the Spontaneous Mixtures of Liquids Disposed to Unite Chemically with each other; CHAPTER 10. RADIATION; An Inquiry concerning the Nature of Heat, and the Mode of its Communication; DISCOVERY OF THE DIFFERENTIAL THERMOMETER; CHAPTER 11. COUNT RUMFORD'S CONCEPT OF HEAT; INDEX.