The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies

J. Van Voorst, 1867 - 376 pàgines

MATHEMATICAL INTRODUCTION	1

Example from analytical mechanics	10

Statement of further imperfections requiring especial consideration	14

Previous form of the theorem	16

Progressive establishment and development in the present memoirs	37

Modification of the theorem and new mode of establishing	45

Conclusions deduced from the principal equation in the case of vapours	52

Equation for the determination of the specific heat of saturated vapour	65

Numerical calculation of the work of a steamengine with expansion	198

Table containing for aqueous vapour the values of the pressure	204

Law of the dependence of the active force of heat upon the tempera	219

On a differential equation of similar form proceeding from the equa	228

Theorem concerning the heat actually present in a body	235

Theorem of the equivalence of transformations in its extended form	242

Transformationvalue of the heat of a body Changes of temperature	250

APPENDIX B ON THE SPECIFIC HEAT OF GASES AT CONSTANT VOLUME	256

Convenient form of the integral obtained by the introduction of	78

Another mode of change of the freezingpoint	83

Remark on a change of the heat of fusion which takes place near 0	89

Treatment of the third case	97

THIRD MEMOIR	104

First Fundamental Theorem in the Mechanical Theory of Heat	111

Concise restatement of the first fundamental theorem and deduction	112

Description of a completed cyclical process	118

Theorem of the equivalence of transformations	125

Special form of this equation comparison of the function of the tem	131

Different kinds of periodically working machines	139

General application of the equations which hold for cyclical processes	145

Application of the second fundamental theorem of the mechanical theory	147

Changes of volume of a mass consisting of vapour and liquid enclosed	152

Determination of the work done during a cyclical process	159

Reduction of the work to a unit of weight of vapour	185

Values of the specific heat of water and of the latent heat of aqueous	192

Incidental assumption relative to perfect gases	257

Table	264

Historical account of the circumstances under which the axiom	270

Hirns objection to the axiom	280

EIGHTH MEMOIR	290

Determination of corresponding points and of corresponding surface	297

Deportment of gases during changes of volume	303

Determination of the mutual radiation in the case where no concen	305

21	310

Determination of the mutual radiation between two elements which	311

30	318

General determination of the mutual radiation between two surfaces	319

Summary of principal results	326

34	346

nated by the term entropy	353

Changes which occur in a nonreversible manner	362

Establishment of the complete differential equations	374

Títol	The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies Landmarks of Science
Autor	Rudolf Clausius
Editor	Thomas Archer Hirst
Col·laborador	John Tyndall
Editor	J. Van Voorst, 1867
Original de	Universitat de Harvard
Digitalitzat el	12 Jul. 2007
Nre. de pàgines	376 pàgines

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