 | 1906 - 576 pages
...the class of work, the finest being guaranteed to within one 50,000th of an inch. Endosmose.— See Diffusion. Endo.thermic, Exo.thermic. — When chemical...designing, labouring to convert one form of energy inte another and more useful form. In the process of conversion a greater or less fraction of the energy... | |
 | Henry Augustus Perkins - Thermodynamics - 1912 - 304 pages
...energy of the other kind that is produced at its expense. It is really a special case of the law of the conservation of energy which states that the total...amount of energy in the universe is constant, and that it is only possible to effect transformations between the various forms in which that energy may exist.... | |
 | Edward Marvin Shealy - Heat - 1914 - 286 pages
...created during the process. This gives rise to the theory of the conservation of energy, which is, that the total amount of energy in the Universe is constant, and that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It sometimes appears that some of the energy put into a machine... | |
 | Edward Marvin Shealy - Heat - 1914 - 282 pages
...created during the process. This gives rise to the theory of the conservation of energy, which is, that the total amount of energy in the Universe is constant, and that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It sometimes appears that some of the energy put into a machine... | |
 | Haroutune Mugurditch Dadourian - Mechanics, Analytic - 1915 - 454 pages
...recognition and the experimental verification of the great generalization known as the principle of the conservation of energy, which states that the total amount of energy of an isolated system is constant. By means of the interaction of the different parts of an isolated... | |
 | Fred Alan Fish - Electric engineering - 1920 - 216 pages
...ciple which the engineer must never forget is that of the Conservation of Energy. This principle is that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant, and can neither be added to nor subtracted from. This law is not susceptible of mathematical proof, but... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1927 - 622 pages
...phenomena on a very small scale. Furthermore, the law of the conservation of energy, which teaches that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant and that all we can do is to transform it from one form into another, is a macrocosmic law, while the law or... | |
 | Brian Pressley - Science - 2003 - 134 pages
...Scientists have long thought that matter is also a form of energy, and the law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant but can be changed from one form to another. During a chemical reaction, the amount of matter that... | |
 | Brian Pressley - Chemistry - 2004 - 198 pages
...Scientists have long thought that matter is also a form of energy, and the law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant, but it can change from one form to another. During a chemical reaction, the amount of matter that is... | |
 | Benjamin Katz - Literary Collections - 2004 - 354 pages
...thermodynamics, postulated by Hermann Von Helmholtz in 1847(also called the Law of Conservation of Energy) states that the total amount of energy in the Universe is constant. A process may modify the form of energy, but a closed system doesn't lose energy. We can use this knowledge... | |
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A great and important law is that known as the conservation of energy, which states that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant, and that man is neither able to create nor to destroy energy. 