Lectures on some recent advances in physical science : with a special lecture on force / by P.G. Tait.

Date:
1885
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    CONTENTS. LECTURE 1. INTRODUCTORY. Classification of Recent Advances in Physical Science, General State- ment of the Objects of Physics. Time and Space, Matter, Position, Motion, and Force, Digression upon a/rzcr? reasoning. Instantes of modern or revived fallacies—Uniformity of Earth's Rotation, Sta- bility of Solar System, Heat developed the equivalent of work spent in compressing a gas. Causa csqziat effectum. Gilbert the true origi- nator of Experimental Science, Test of the reality of Matter—falls when applied to Force—not when applied to Energy, Conservation, Transformation, and Dissipation of Energy, Ignorance and Inca- pacity alike of Spiritualists and Materialists, . . , . LECTURE IL THE EARLY HISTORY OF ENERGY. Newton's services to the subject only of late recognised. Second Law —There is no balancing of forces ; but only of the effects of forces— Geometrical composition of velocities. Third Law—Its second in- terpretation an all but complete statement of the Conservation of 'Energy—Arithmetical composition of the squares of velocities. Experimental results of Rumford and Davy, filling up the lacuna in Newton's statement. Their proofs that Heat is not matter. Davy's statement of the true theory of Heat. Speculations of S6guin and Mayer,