 | Thomas Wallace Wright - Mechanics - 1890 - 276 pages
...neither be created nor destroyed. In a word, energy is indestructible; or, as it may be expressed : The total energy of any body or system of bodies is...into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. This principle, known as the Conservation of Energy, is the general principle premised at the beginning... | |
 | Church history - 1890 - 436 pages
...Correlation of Forces. For the first of these, a good definition is given by Prof. Clerke Maxwell : — (; The total energy of any body or system of bodies is...these bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energy is susceptible." The popular putting of this principle is : Any energy... | |
 | Theology - 1890 - 596 pages
...established law of science, he quotes, by way of definition, the language of the late Clerk Maxwell : " The total energy of any body or system of bodies is...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."... | |
 | Charles Vandeleur Burton - Dynamics - 1890 - 330 pages
...never destroyed, is called the Conservation of Energy, and is thus enunciated by Clerk Maxwell ' : The total energy of any body or system of bodies is...which can neither be increased nor diminished by any mutuai action of these bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is... | |
 | John Howard Appleton - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1890 - 272 pages
...temperature. The important principle stated by Clerk Maxwell may with propriety be presented here : — be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible." The Law of Maximum Work. — Berthelot states this law as follows : — " Every chemical change accomplished... | |
 | Henry Adams - Mechanical engineering - 1891 - 338 pages
...can only be transferred into some other form, or to some other matter. 15. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. The total energy of any body or system of bodies is...into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. — Cleric Maxwell. 16. LAWS or MOTION. i I. Change of state is due to external force. Summary s II.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1891 - 610 pages
...always believed in this general statement regarding the doctrine of the conservation of energy : " The total energy of any body, or system of bodies,...any of the forms of which energy is susceptible." Or the same principle may be thus expressed : " The various forms of energy in the universe, whatever... | |
 | William Kinnimond Burton - Photographic optics - 1891 - 170 pages
...system of bodies is a quantity which neither be increased nor diminished by any mutual action of their bodies, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible." To take a practical and familiar example, we place in the fire-box of the boiler attached to the engine... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Electric batteries - 1891 - 216 pages
...energy. This principle is stated by Maxwell as follows : l — " 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... | |
 | Manly Miles - Drainage - 1892 - 232 pages
...science which our faculties permit us to perceive." This law is formulated by Maxwell as follows : " The total energy of any body, or system of bodies,...these bodies, though it may be transformed into any one of the forms of which energv is susceptible." These forms of energy are known as motion, heat,... | |
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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. 
