 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1887 - 676 pages
...one of the main philosophicalachievements of the epoch under discussion. According to that doctrine, the total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity as absolutely fixed and as incapable of suffering either increase or diminution as the matter of which... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 346 pages
...all the conclusions which are implied in it. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. ' TJie total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminislied by any mutual action of these bodies, tlwugh it may be transformed into any of the forms... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Heat - 1872 - 340 pages
...and traced into all the conclusions which are implied in it. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. ' The total energy of any body or system of...which can neither be increased nor diminished by any Conscrtiaticn of Energy. 93 mutual action of these ladies, though it may be transformed into any of... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Heat - 1872 - 332 pages
...and traced into all the conclusions which are implied in it. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. ' The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be in/.reascd nor diminished by any 1 Conservation of Energy. 93 •mutual action of these bodies, though... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Force and energy - 1876 - 144 pages
...LXXIV.—GTENERAL STATEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Electric power - 1881 - 254 pages
...Conservation of Energy. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. 24.] The total energy of any system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of those bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. If,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1050 pages
...find it in Clerk Maxwell's little book on Matter and Motion : The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - English language - 1883 - 546 pages
...rotation; C. of motion of translation; C. of vis viva. It is a fundamental principle of Physics that the total energy of any body or system of bodies is...these bodies, though it may be transformed into any ol the forms of which energy is susceptible. Thus some of the mechanical or kinetic energy of the system... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook - Physical optics - 1883 - 462 pages
...is meant by the conservation of energy. Professor Maxwell ' states it thus : ' The total energy of a body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither...increased nor diminished by any mutual action of these 1 Heat: Text-books of Science. bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1883 - 924 pages
...it in Clerk Maxwell's little book on " Matter and Motion :" The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which... | |
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The total energy of any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of such bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energy is susceptible. 
