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... temperature in the two halves of the gas , for our temperature - cali- brating instruments give us only a mean value.1 The last two , how- ever , represent differences of temperature , the probability of which , for four molecules , is ...
... temperature in the two halves of the gas , for our temperature - cali- brating instruments give us only a mean value.1 The last two , how- ever , represent differences of temperature , the probability of which , for four molecules , is ...
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... temperature were each con- sidered candidates for transforming energy into power . The Abbé John of Hautefeuille ... temperature . Apparently seven or eight degrees of difference in temperature per day sufficed to keep the clock fully ...
... temperature were each con- sidered candidates for transforming energy into power . The Abbé John of Hautefeuille ... temperature . Apparently seven or eight degrees of difference in temperature per day sufficed to keep the clock fully ...
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... temperature may be utilized to vaporize liquid ammonia under very considerable pressures , but within the control of known means of retention . The high pressure gas thus obtained being used with the greatest practicable measure of ...
... temperature may be utilized to vaporize liquid ammonia under very considerable pressures , but within the control of known means of retention . The high pressure gas thus obtained being used with the greatest practicable measure of ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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