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... Law was purely empirical . Although it was analogous that water would flow ... thermodynamics becomes one of probability rather than regularity . Dr Paul R ... law of gaseous diffusion is closely similar to the law of flow of heat , dif ...
... Law was purely empirical . Although it was analogous that water would flow ... thermodynamics becomes one of probability rather than regularity . Dr Paul R ... law of gaseous diffusion is closely similar to the law of flow of heat , dif ...
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... Law of thermodynamics in that neither friction nor electrical resistance is a significant problem in their design . They are none the less impossibilities because they attempt instead to circumvent the Second Law of thermodynamics . The ...
... Law of thermodynamics in that neither friction nor electrical resistance is a significant problem in their design . They are none the less impossibilities because they attempt instead to circumvent the Second Law of thermodynamics . The ...
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... Law of thermodynamics . The promises of the liquid air scheme were alluring - bewilderingly so — and its friends were loath to give up the hopes based upon them . Posing as an exemption from a painful but inexorable law , this fallacy ...
... Law of thermodynamics . The promises of the liquid air scheme were alluring - bewilderingly so — and its friends were loath to give up the hopes based upon them . Posing as an exemption from a painful but inexorable law , this fallacy ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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