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... produced or emanating from the operation- the right - hand column . The energy which we may loosely speak of as ' lost ' has not in truth disappeared . It has merely changed its form so that it ceases to become possible to convert it ...
... produced or emanating from the operation- the right - hand column . The energy which we may loosely speak of as ' lost ' has not in truth disappeared . It has merely changed its form so that it ceases to become possible to convert it ...
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... produced a number of earth - powered clocks to his own patented design , which featured a system to overcome the difficulties encountered with the Bain type of clock in maintaining constant amplitude of the pendulum which is a ...
... produced a number of earth - powered clocks to his own patented design , which featured a system to overcome the difficulties encountered with the Bain type of clock in maintaining constant amplitude of the pendulum which is a ...
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... produced . One carries on the fission as already explained , and 1 are spare . Now if the 993 lb. of uranium 238 are packed round the fire of uranium 235 , the 1 spare neutrons pass into the 238 and produce 1 atoms of plutonium for each ...
... produced . One carries on the fission as already explained , and 1 are spare . Now if the 993 lb. of uranium 238 are packed round the fire of uranium 235 , the 1 spare neutrons pass into the 238 and produce 1 atoms of plutonium for each ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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