The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... equal times . The experimental verification of this fact led him to the important discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum . He at first applied the new principle to pulse - measurement , and more than fifty years later turned it to ...
... equal times . The experimental verification of this fact led him to the important discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum . He at first applied the new principle to pulse - measurement , and more than fifty years later turned it to ...
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... equal ; and it was not until shortly before his death that he found the mathe- matical demonstration of this not very obvious principle . The first law of motion - that which expresses the prin- ciple of inertia - is virtually contained ...
... equal ; and it was not until shortly before his death that he found the mathe- matical demonstration of this not very obvious principle . The first law of motion - that which expresses the prin- ciple of inertia - is virtually contained ...
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... equal to the external resistance . The case contemplated here is that where we have a simple external circuit ; many cases can be reduced to this at once , and we shall consider below a more complicated case of considerable practical ...
... equal to the external resistance . The case contemplated here is that where we have a simple external circuit ; many cases can be reduced to this at once , and we shall consider below a more complicated case of considerable practical ...
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... equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 . In more modern instruments , such as those constructed by Messrs ...
... equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 . In more modern instruments , such as those constructed by Messrs ...
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... equal parallel and vertical coils , one on each side of the magnet , each at a distance from it equal to half the common radius . In fig . 19 , at the end of his second volume , Maxwell gives a diagram of the lines of force due to two equal ...
... equal parallel and vertical coils , one on each side of the magnet , each at a distance from it equal to half the common radius . In fig . 19 , at the end of his second volume , Maxwell gives a diagram of the lines of force due to two equal ...
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