Nature, Volume 47Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1893 |
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... side of the product ) would have to turn to make its direction coincide with that of the second . Prof. Gibbs and Mr. Heaviside , on the contrary , define the scalar product and the vector product as if they we entirely distinct and ...
... side of the product ) would have to turn to make its direction coincide with that of the second . Prof. Gibbs and Mr. Heaviside , on the contrary , define the scalar product and the vector product as if they we entirely distinct and ...
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... side , nor correspond with any natural bar- rier in the course of the Rhone below the lake . Prof. Forel doubts whether they indicate old levels of its waters . Lake Léman consists of two basins . The first and larger extends from the ...
... side , nor correspond with any natural bar- rier in the course of the Rhone below the lake . Prof. Forel doubts whether they indicate old levels of its waters . Lake Léman consists of two basins . The first and larger extends from the ...
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... side . Some of these crystals were growing vertically from the ground , others springing out hori- zontally from the side of the cutting , and were either straight , curved , or bent round forming a half circle . This morning the same ...
... side . Some of these crystals were growing vertically from the ground , others springing out hori- zontally from the side of the cutting , and were either straight , curved , or bent round forming a half circle . This morning the same ...
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... side by side with shellac on a mica frame . One of them was blackened in a turpentine flame and exposed to the light , the other being covered . The difference of resistance produced by the incident rays was measured by a Wheatstone ...
... side by side with shellac on a mica frame . One of them was blackened in a turpentine flame and exposed to the light , the other being covered . The difference of resistance produced by the incident rays was measured by a Wheatstone ...
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... side of the leaf being smooth and shining , the under side not shining and of a glaucous colour . The little kit , or basket , for a first - born child was often a little gem of weaving art , and made by the mother . Besides the flax ...
... side of the leaf being smooth and shining , the under side not shining and of a glaucous colour . The little kit , or basket , for a first - born child was often a little gem of weaving art , and made by the mother . Besides the flax ...
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Página 120 - That the magnitudes of these standards should be determined on the electro-magnetic system of measurement with reference to the centimetre as unit of length, the gramme as unit of mass, and the second as unit of time, and that by the terms centimetre and gramme are meant the standards of those denominations deposited with the Board of Trade. 3. That the standard of electrical resistance should be denominated the ohm, and should have the value 1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 4....
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Página 120 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.