Theory of Heat - Classic Reprint Author:James Clerk Maxwell A TREATISE on HEAT CHAPTER I. introduction. The distinction between hot bodies and cold ones is familiar to all, and is associated in our minds with the difference of the sensations which we experience in touching various substances, according as they are hot or cold. The intensity of these sensations is susceptible of degrees, so that we may es... more »timate one body to be hotter or colder than another by the touch. The words hot, warm, cool, cold, are associated in our minds with a series of sensations which we suppose to indicate a corresponding series of states of an object with respect to heat. We use these words, therefore, as the names of these states of the object, or, in scientific language, they are the names of Temperatures, the word hot indicating a high temperature, cold a low temperature, and the intermediate terms intermediate temperatures, while the word temperature itself is a general term intended to apply to anyone of these states of the object. Since the state of a b
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION; Meaning of the word Temperature 1; The Mercurial Thermometer 5; Heat as a Quantity 6; Diffusion of Heat by Conduction and Radiation io; The three Physical States of Bodies if; CHAPTER II; THERMOMETRY, OR THE REGISTRATION OF TEMPERATURE; Definition of Higher and Lower Temperature ? 32; Temperatures ol Reference 34; Different Thermometry Scales 37; Construction of a Thermometer 40; The Air Thermometer 4°; Other Methods of Ascertaining Temperatures ? 51; CHAPTER IIL CALORIMETRY, OR THE MEASUREMENT OF HEAl; Selection of a Unit of Heat 54; All Heat is of the same Kind 56; Ice Calorimeters 58; Bunsen's Calorimeter 6t; Method of Mixture 63; Definitions of Thermal Capacity and Specific Heat 6^; Latent Heat of Steam 69; Contents,; CHAPTER IV; ELEMENTARY DYNAMICAL PRINCIPLES; page; Measurement of Quantities 74; The Units of Length, Mass, and Time, and their Derived Units 76; Measurement of Force 83; Wor« less