Text-book on the Steam EngineC. Lockwood and Company, 1879 - 296 Seiten |
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Seite 51 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation, is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Seite 12 - Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary. Including- a large number of Technical Terms used in Mining, Engineering, &c., with the proper Accents and the Gender of every Noun. By ALFRED ELWES.
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Seite 78 - B with the sound velocity where y is the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, and p is the gas pressure.