Physics

by Willis E. Tower; Thomas D. Cope; Charles H. Smith; Charles M. Turton

• Calorie, defined, [162]
• Camera, [426]
• Candlepower, [394]
• Capillary action, [25]
• Cartesian diver, [71]
• Cathode rays, [453]
• Centrifugal force, [91]
• Charles' Law, [165]
• Chladni's figures, [381]
• Choke coils, [470]
• Coefficient of expansion, definitions, [170]
  • gases, [167]
  • liquids, [168]
  • solids, [169]
• Coherer, [449]
• Cohesion, [21], [33]
• Color, [435]
  • bodies, [435]
  • complementary, [436]
  • primary, [440]
  • prismatic, [433]
  • theory of color vision, [440]
  • three-color printing, [440]
• Commutator, [335], [336]
• Compass, [230], [240]
• Concave lens, [418]
• Condenser, [260], [474]
• Conductors, [246]
• Conservation of energy, [127]
• Continental code, [459]
  • compared with the Morse, [452]
• Convection, [179]
  • currents in nature, [181]
  • draft of a chimney, [180]
• Convex lens, [416]
• Cooling, artificial, [210]
• Corpuscular theory, [442]
• Coulomb, [290]
  • meter, [291]
• Couple, [101]
• Critical angle, [414]
• Crookes' tube, [456]
• Crystallization, [28]
  • melting point of some crystalline substances, [203]

• Daniel cell, [276]
• Declination, [240]
• Density, [38], [52]
  • methods for finding, [53]
• Dew, [192]
• Dew point, [193]
• Diffusion of gases, [13]
• Dipping needle, [240]
• Direct Current, [337]
• Dispersion, [433]
• Distillation, [208]
• Draft of a chimney, [180]
• Dry cell, [275]
• Dynamo, [330], [333]
• Dyne, [93]

• Eye, the, [423]
  • action of, in vision, [423]
  • defects of, [425]
• Ear, the, [386]
  • trumpet, [361]
• Earth's magnetism, [238]
• Echoes, [362]
• Eclipses, [391]
• Efficiency, [142]
  • engines (tests), [219]
  • machines, [142]
• Elasticity, [31]
• Electric bell, [269], [287]
  • charge, distribution of, upon a conductor, [253]
  • circuit, [269]
  • currents, [267]
    • single phase, [479]
    • three phase, [479]
      • effects, [277]
      • induced, [326]
  • discharge in rarefied air, [452]
  • motor, [339]
  • screen, [256]
• Electrical capacity, [259]
  • fields, [247]
• Electrification, [243]
• Electrolysis, [308]
  • laws, [311]
  • practical uses, [311]
• Electromagnet, [281]
• Electromagnetic theory of light, [456]
• Electromotive force, [267]
  • unit of, [295]
• Electron theory, [252]
• Electrophorus, [263]
• Electroplating, [307]
• Electroscope, [244]
• Electrostatic induction, [248]
• Energy, [120]
  • conservation, [127]
  • falling water, [152]
  • forms, [125]
  • human body, [126]
• Energy, kinetic, [121]
  • potential, [120]
  • transference and transformation, [124]
• Engines, [213]
• Engines, gas, [222]
  • steam, [213]
    • turbine, [225]
• Equilibrant, [81]
• Equilibrium, [106]
  • neutral, [107]
  • stable, [106]
  • stability, [108]
  • unstable, [107]
• Erg, [119]
• Ether, [177]
• Evaporation, [18]
  • cooling effect, [19], [197]
  • rate, [198]
• Expansion, coefficient, [168]
  • gases, [167]
  • liquids, [168]
  • peculiarity, in water, [168]
  • solids, [169]
  • water, on turning to steam, [206]

• Falling bodies, [109]
  • experimental study, [111]
  • laws, [113]
• Floating bodies, [48]
• Fluoroscope, [455]
• Foot candle, [396]
• Force, [79]
  • dyne, [93]
  • effectiveness, [134]
  • graphic representation, [80]
  • liquid, against any surface, [38]
  • measuring, [79]
  • moment, [99]
  • parallel, [100]
  • resolution, [96]
  • units, [83]
• Forces, parallel, [100]
• Franklin's theory of electricity, [252]
• Fraunhofer lines, [439]
• Freezing, evaporation, [197], [199]
  • mixtures, [210]
• Friction, [147],
  • coefficient, [149]
  • fluid, [150]
  • kinds, [147]
• Friction, laws, [150]
  • reducing, [148]
  • uses, [149]

• Galvanometers, [289]
• Galvanoscope, [269]
• Gas engine, [222]
  • efficiency of, [224]
• Gas meter, [75]
• Geissler tubes, [453]
• Gravitation, [103]
  • law, [104]
• Gravity, [88], [104]
  • acceleration due to, [111]
  • cell, [277]
  • center of, [105]

• Hail, [193]
• Hearing, [386]
• Heat, capacity for water, [201]
  • conduction, [173]
  • constants for transmission, [220]
  • convection, [179]
  • effects, [161]
  • engines, [213], [222]
  • equivalent of fuels, [219]
  • fusion, [201]
  • measurement, [200]
  • methods of transmitting, [173]
  • produced by electric current, [318]
  • radiation, [176]
  • sources, [159]
  • units, [162]
  • vaporization, [205]
  • work, [212]
• Heating of buildings, [182]
  • direct and indirect radiation, [186]
  • hot air, [183]
    • water, [186]
  • plenum system, [187]
  • steam, [186]
  • vacuum steam, [187]
  • vapor steam, [187]
• Hertzian waves, [262], [449]
• Hooke's law, [33]
• Horse power, [123]
  • electric equivalent of, [123]
• Humidity, [194]
• Hydraulic press, [42]
  • elevator, [44]
  • ram, [72]
• Hygrometers, [194]
• Hygrometry, [191]
  • conditions for saturation, [192]
  • dew point, [193]
  • fog, [193]
  • formation, of dew, [192]
  • humidity, [194]
  • hygrometers, [194]
  • importance, [191]
• Hypothesis, [3]

• Images, concave mirrors, [405]
  • construction, [405]
  • definition, [392]
  • plain mirror, [401]
  • small apertures, [391]
• Impedance, [472]
• Incandescent lamp, [320]
• Inclined plane, [143]
• Inductance, [471]
• Induction coil, [343]
• Inertia, [87]
• Insulators, [246]
• Intensity of sound, [363]
• Interference, light, [442]
  • sound, [374]

• Joule, [120], [319]