The Intermediate Text-Book of Physical Science - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PAGK Compensation Pendulum .. ..230 Complex Machines 134 Compound Bodies 267,268 Compound Proportion, Law of .. 278 Compressibility 40 Condenser, Electric 258 „ Steam Engine .. ..156 Conductor 238 Conscientiousness 18 Conservation of Energy 296 M ■' Laws of .. 3U Constant Proportion, Law of .. .. 277 Corpuscular Theory of Light (Latin, corpusculum, a small Iiody; the theory which regards light as an emission of matter from the lu- minous source) 177 Critical Angle 189 Crystallography 284 Currents (Electric) produced by cur- rents 257 Deduction (Latin, de, from, and duco, to lead: the act of reasoning from the general to the par- ticular) 29 Density 35 „ of Gases 279 Dialysis (Greek, dia, through, and lyo, to loose; analysis by passing the substance through thin parti- tions or membranes) 143 Diamagnetic Bodies 252 Diathermancy (Greek, dia, through, and therme, neat; transparent to heat) 231 Diffraction of Light (Latin, dU, apart, and frango, to break; breaking up of white into coloured light) 204 Dimorphous Bodies (Greek, dia, twice, and merpha. form; bodies which crystallise in two or more different forms) 285 Dispersion of Light 196 „ „ Irrationality of 205 Dissipation of Energy 312 Divisions of Science 0 Divisibility of Matter .. .. 38,274 Dynamical Theory of Matter (Greek, dynamis, force or power; the theory which regards matter as a form of motion) 294 Dynamical Unit 297 Dynamo-Electric Machines .. .. 256 Ear, The 176 „ Range of 21, 26 „ Trumpet 176 Earth, Weight of 64 ,, Structure of 66 „ Figure of 67 ,, Rotation of 68 „ Orbit of 72 Earthquakes 269 Echo 175 Edison's Lamp 248 -.. . . PAGB Elasticity of Matter 40 Electric Charge 237, til „ Current, Chemical Effects of 217 » ii Beating ...