Elements of natural philosophy : being an experimental introduction to the study of the physical sciences.

  • Bird, Golding, 1815-1854.
Date:
1839
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    shank's and Wullaston's batteries, 228 ; Daniell's, 229 Electric currents, action of on magnets, 244 ; law of intensity of action, 245; attraction and repulsion of, 250; rota- tion of magnet round, 251; mutual ac- tion of, and magnets, 249 j excited by electro-dynamic induction, 266 Electrodes, or poles, 234 Electro-dynamic induction, 266 Electrolytes, 236 Electrolasmus, 175 Electro-magnetic machines, 270 ; shock, 269; spark, 274 Electrometers, pith-ball, 162; gold-leaf, 165 ; Coulomb's, 165 , Lane's, 185 ; qua- drant, 188 ; Voltaic, 237 Electromotors, 221; with two fluids, 224 ; with one metal, 226 Electrophorus, 174 Electro-chemical decomposition by com- pound batteries, 233, 237; by single pairs, 220, 226, 239 ; by machine elec- tricity, definite nature of, 236 Electro-dynamic cylinder, 257 > vibrations, 254 Electro-dynamic rotations, of magnets, 251 ; of wires, 252; of helices, 253; of spur-wheels and discs, 254; of wire coils, 257 ; of electro-magnets, 260; of currents round each other, 261 Electro-magnets, 259 ; rotating, 257 Elements, chemical, table of, 219 Elevation of light bodies by gravity, 25 Endosmose and exosmose, 20 Equilibrium, stable, and unstable, 30; of fluids, 82 Eschenmaier's view of magnetized bars, 148 Ether, luminiferous, 292 Kuler's illustration of musical tones, 134 Evaporation, evolution of electricity, by, 211 Eye considered as an optical instrument, 392; refraction of light through, 394 i absence of spherical aberration in, 395 ; not achromatic, ib.; structure of, in lower animals,396; seat of vision in, ib. s occasional insensibility of, to colours, 399 Falling of bodies, towards the earth, 24; produced by gravity, 42; velocity of, in a second of time, 43; down inclined planes, 47, 58 ; down curves, 53 Faraday, Dr., on vibrating plates, 137 ; on electro-chemical decomposition, 236; his voltaic battery, 228; on electric induction, 171; on specific inductive capacity, 172 Flexibility of bodies, 8 Flowing of fluids, conditions for, 111; phenomena of, 112 Fluids or liquids, properties of, 78 Focus, optical, defined, 301; of mirrors, 16.; conjugate, 302; negative or apparent, 303; of lenses, formula; for, 315 Forbes, Prof., his mode of obtaining elliptically-polarized light, 379 Forces, centre of parallel, 26, 61; necessary to produce motion, 11; centrifugal, 34; affecting the figure of the earth, 35 ; result of the application of one, 37; composition of, 38; resolution of, 39 Formulae for, uniformly accelerated mo- tion, 41; falling bodies, 45; velocity of percutient bodies, 51; the pendulum, 56; the lever, 66; the pulley, 70 ; inclined plane, 72; screw, 73; fluid pressure, 84 ; the magnet, Eschenmaier's, 148 ; mag- netic Intensity, Coulomb's, 159; foci of lenses, 315; molecular force of circular polarization, Biot's, 378 Fountain, condensed air, 110; construction of, 115; Hiero's, 122 Franklin, Dr., his electric kite, 211; his thunder-house, 214 Fraunhofer, his bands in different spectra, 330; curve showing these lines, 331 Fresnel, his experiment on interference, 335; on diffraction, 338 ; his conversion of rectilinear into circular polarization, 378 Friction of fluids, 116 Fringes of diffracted light, 337; of polarized light, 366 Frogs, electric phenomena observed in, 285 Galvanl, Prof., his discovery of organic electricity, 285 Galvanic electricity, 217 Glass, acquisition of doubly refracting power by, 352; systems of fringes in, exhibited by polarized light, 3/0 Gold, extension of, 8 Gravitation, attraction of, 21; lateral, 23; directed towards the earth's centre, 22 ; law of its action, 43 Gravity, centre of, 26; mode of finding, 27; action of, on bodies of unequal density, 29 Gravity, specific, 91; of solids, 92; of fluids, 93 ; of gases, 95; table of, 97 Gregorian telescope, 383 Grimaldi, Father, his discovery of dif- fraction, 336 Gymnotus electricus, electric phenomena of, 284