Nature, Volum 30Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1884 |
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Pàgina 28 - Fig. 9, the amount of heat produced is proportional to the resistance, and to the square of the current; or, to the EMF and the current.
Pàgina 197 - A Treatise on the Application of Wire to the Construction of Ordnance.
Pàgina 27 - That proficiency in the use of tools for working in wood and iron be paid for as a "specific subject," arrangements being made for the work being done, so far as practicable, out ot school hours.
Pàgina 21 - The better the discipline of the troops, or the more treacly the fluid, the less likely is steady motion to be disturbed under any circumstances. On the other hand, speed and size are in both cases influences conducive to unsteadiness. The larger the army, and the more rapid the evolutions, the greater the chance of disorder ; so with fluid, the larger the channel, and the greater the velocity, the more chance of eddies.
Pàgina 98 - I think, then, that we cannot escape from the reasons to believe that we lose in England and Wales every year, in consequence of sickness, 20,000,000 of weeks' work ; or, say, as much work as 20,000,000 of healthy people would do in a week.
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