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2. On a Mechanical Action of Heat, Section VI.:—A Review of the Fundamental Principles of the Mechanical Theory of Heat; with remarks on the Thermic Phenomena of Currents of Elastic Fluids, as illustrating those principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

W. J. Macquorn Rankine Esq.
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This section contains four sub-sections, the first three of which constitute a review of the fundamental principles of the Mechanical Theory of Heat, which are investigated by a method different from any that has been hitherto employed; while the fourth contains the application of those principles to the determination of the inferences to be drawn from the recent experiments of Mr Joule and Prof. William Thomson on the thermic phenomena exhibited by currents of air rushing through small openings.

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Proceedings 1852-53
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 162 - 169
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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page 166 note * These conclusions have since been confirmed by M. Regnault's experiments on the Specific Heat of Gases. (See Comptes Rendus, 1853, and Philos. Mag., June 1853.)