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... Centimetre - Gram - Second System Sir W. THOMSON on the Precessional Motion of a Liquid .. on the Laws of the Diffusion of Liquids on a new case of Instability of Steady Motion ... on the Nutation of a Solid Shell containing Liquid ...
... Centimetre - Gram - Second System Sir W. THOMSON on the Precessional Motion of a Liquid .. on the Laws of the Diffusion of Liquids on a new case of Instability of Steady Motion ... on the Nutation of a Solid Shell containing Liquid ...
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... centimetre - gramme - second units , hitherto described for brevity by its significant figures 705 , will be spoken of in this Report as 70-5 , to which the meaning may conveniently be attached that 70 · 5 gramme - degree units of heat ...
... centimetre - gramme - second units , hitherto described for brevity by its significant figures 705 , will be spoken of in this Report as 70-5 , to which the meaning may conveniently be attached that 70 · 5 gramme - degree units of heat ...
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... centimetre in section has a resistance of one ohm for infinitely small currents , its re- sistance when acted on by an electromotive force of one volt ( provided its temperature is kept the same ) is not altered by so much as part . 1 ...
... centimetre in section has a resistance of one ohm for infinitely small currents , its re- sistance when acted on by an electromotive force of one volt ( provided its temperature is kept the same ) is not altered by so much as part . 1 ...
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... centimetres long , and then through a much longer and thicker wire of about the same resistance . The other branch of the current passes through two resistances , equal to each other , but much greater than the other two , so that very ...
... centimetres long , and then through a much longer and thicker wire of about the same resistance . The other branch of the current passes through two resistances , equal to each other , but much greater than the other two , so that very ...
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... to tenths of a millimetre , though of course in the present case for * The deflection due to six centimetres deviation from balance is called the sensibility . the balances accuracy to less than a millimetre was not ON OHM'S LAW . 57.
... to tenths of a millimetre , though of course in the present case for * The deflection due to six centimetres deviation from balance is called the sensibility . the balances accuracy to less than a millimetre was not ON OHM'S LAW . 57.
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