There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably... The Monist - 151. lappuselaboja - 1921Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Piet C. van der Kruit, Gerry Gilmore - 1995 - 494 lapas
...remained unresolved, and in 1892 Thompson repeated the exact words he had used almost forty years before: “Within a finite period of time past the earth must...have been, and within a finite period of time to come must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been... | |
| Stephen G. Brush - 1996 - 150 lapas
...a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy" (Kelvin 1852) he wrote: 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible... | |
| John Marks Templeton - 1998 - 276 lapas
...remained unresolved, and in 1892 Kelvin repeated the exact words he had used almost forty years before: Within a finite period of time past the Earth must...have been, and within a finite period of time to come must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been... | |
| Leo Charney - 1998 - 204 lapas
...dissension 9 —is its forecast of apocalypse. For if every exchange that creates heat must also waste Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period to come the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless... | |
| Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 lapas
...vegetable bodies' which up to this point he had excluded from direct discussion. First, he proclaimed that 'There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy'. Though presented here simply as another deduction, this conclusion in fact expressed Thomson's fundamental... | |
| Peter Michael Harman - 2001 - 264 lapas
...energy' into the energy of motion of the particles of the conductor. Thomson drew a general conclusion: 'There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy'.23 In drafting his paper 'On the dynamical theory of gases' early in 1866, Maxwell considered... | |
| John Gribbin - 1999 - 276 lapas
...the year he received his peerage, Kelvin returned to the remark he had made in 1852, and updated it: "Within a finite period of time past the earth must...have been, and within a finite period of time to come must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been... | |
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...be known as the second law of thermodynamics was offered by Kelvin, who wrote in 1852: "i. There is present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible... | |
| Torsten Hahn - 2002 - 340 lapas
...oder lang all jener Temperaturdifferenzen werde verlustig gehen, die bislang Leben möglich machten. There is at present in the material world a universal...the dissipation of mechanical energy. [...] Within a fmite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come the... | |
| Bruce Clarke, Linda Dalrymple Henderson - 2002 - 466 lapas
...litany of cosmological consequences whose chilling tones would reverberate for the next century: 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible... | |
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