 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1878 - Страниц: 470
...temperature and deprived of all heat-energy. But Sir William Thompson has enunciated the principle : " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.'' 3 This principle is not correct, as stated, except as it implies the existence of certain conditions... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - Страниц: 912
...temperature and deprived of all heat-energy. But Sir William Thompson has enunciated the principle : "It is impossible, by means of inanimate material...derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter, \>y cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.'' 3 This principle... | |
 | 1864 - Страниц: 560
...we have taken this notice, gives the above not very evident axiom in the more convincing furin : " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects*" Carnot showed that, on his principles, the amount of work done by transference of a given amount of... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - Страниц: 148
...have taken this notice, assumed instead of the above rather dubious axiom the more convincing one: ' It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects' In fact, we see by § 26 that, if we make N transfer back to the source a quantity of heat equal to... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - Страниц: 916
...the experience that heat tends ever to expand, never to concentrate. Sir W. Thomson expresses this axiom in the following terms : — " It is impossible...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." The reviewer has, further, succeeded in demonstrating that the peculiar limitation affecting the transformation... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1912 - Страниц: 690
...Lord Kelvin in a somewhat different form, that it is impossible by means of inanimate material ngency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects, we find that even the authors "f these statements are prepared to admit that this second l.uv stands... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1871 - Страниц: 344
...from one body to another at a higher temperature. Thomson gives it a slightly different form : — It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. By comparing together these statements, the student will be able to make himself master of the fact... | |
 | John Perry - 1874 - Страниц: 438
...reversible engine. The second law of Thermodynamics quoted above, as given by Sir W. Thomson, states that " it is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical work from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects."... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - Страниц: 236
...attempting to lay down anything too definite on the subject. The following is the axiom he gives :— " It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." 1 SeeTait, Phil. Mag., 1872, I. 338, 516; II. 240. But he appends the following guarded note : —... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - Страниц: 270
...attempting to lay down anything too definite on the subject. The following is the axiom he gives : — " It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." 1 See Tait, Phil. May., 1872, I. 338, 516 ; II. 240. But he appends the following guarded note : —... | |
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It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. 
