 | American Philosophical Society - 1876 - 742 pagine
...water one degree in temperature. The air has been heated under a constant pressure, and we have learned that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that required to raise the gas to the... | |
 | sir Philip Magnus (1st bart.) - 1876 - 368 pagine
...unit of work. The details of these experiments are given in treatises on Heat. They serve to prove that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water through 1° P. possesses the same amount of energy as is required to lift 772 Ibs. through... | |
 | sir Philip Magnus (1st bart.) - 1877 - 360 pagine
...unit of work. The details of these experiments are given in treatises on Heat. They serve to prove that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water through 1° F. possesses the same amount of energy as is required to lift 772 Ibs. through... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1894 - 744 pagine
...required to raise m grammes through the same range of temperature will be mq. We cannot, however, assert that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a body 1° is the same at all parts of the scale, or that the quantity given out by a body in cooling from... | |
 | Hall - 1991 - 306 pagine
...HEAT, RADIANT See Radiation; Electromagnetic Radiation. HEAT, SPECIFIC See Specific Heat. HEAT CAPACITY The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a body or system by one degree, either in calories/ "C or Btu/°F. Heat capacity, C, is defined as C = dU/dT... | |
 | 1863 - 1212 pagine
...degree in temperature. " The air has here been heated under a constant pressure ; and we have learned that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that required to raise the gas to the... | |
 | 1908 - 818 pagine
...the weight of a cubic foot of water may be taken as 62.5 pounds. Specific heat is the ratio between the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a body one degree, and that of an equal weight of water one degree. Thus, the specific heat of lead is .0314.... | |
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Ibs. of water one. degree in temperature. The air has here been heated under a constant pressure, and we have learned, that the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gas under constant pressure a certain number of degrees, is to that... 
