Physics

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

• Laws, boiling, [208]
  • Boyle's 63
  • Charles', [165]
  • electric action, [243]
  • falling bodies, [113]
  • floating bodies, [48]
  • gravitation, [104]
  • Hooke's, [33]
  • induced currents, [326]
  • intensity of light, [394]
  • Lenz's, [328]
  • liquid pressure, [37]
  • machines, [131]
  • magnetic action, [229]
  • motion, [87]
  • Ohm's, [298]
  • pendulum, [116]
  • reflection, [399]
  • refraction of light, [411]
  • vibration of strings, [378]
• Lenses, achromatic, [434]
  • effect on light, [417]
  • equation, [421]
  • formation of images, [418]
  • forms, [416]
• Leclanché cell, [275]
• Lever, [132]
• Leyden jar, [261]
  • oscillatory nature of the discharge, [448]
• Light, compared with sound, [388], [444]
  • electromagnetic theory, [456]
  • intensity, [394]
  • interference, [442]
  • polarization, [445]
  • rectilinear propagation, [389]
  • reflection, [396]
  • total reflection, [413]
• Lightning, [254]
• Lines, of force, [233]
  • agonic, [240]
  • isogonic, [240]
• Liquids, pressure, [36]
• Local action, [273]
• Luminous and illuminated bodies, [388]

• Machines, [129]
  • advantages, [129]
  • cannot create energy, [130]
  • efficiency, [142]
  • law, [131]
  • mechanical advantage, [134]
  • the six simple, [132]
  • uses, [129]
• Magnetic action, [229]
  • fields, [233], [466]
  • induction, [231], [236]
  • permeability, [237]
  • poles, [229]
  • properties, [230]
  • retentivity, [231]
  • substances, [230]
  • effect of electric current, [279]
• Magnetism, [228]
• Magnetism, theory, [232]
• Major and minor triads, [369]
• Magneto, [328]
• Magnetoscope, [230]
• Magnets, [228]
  • poles, [229]
• Major scale, [366]
• Manometric flames, [382]
• Matter, [4]
  • effect of heat, [5]
  • molecular theory, [5]
  • properties, [34]
  • states of, [4]
  • states of, defined, [5]
• Mechanical advantage, [134]
• Megaphone, [365]
• Melting points, [203]
• Mercury arc rectifier, [347]
• Metric system, [8]
• Microscope, [427]
• Mirage, [414]
• Mirrors, [400]
  • concave, [405]
  • convex, [407]
  • parabolic, [409]
  • plane, [401]
• Molecular motion in liquids, [18]
  • in gases, [13]
  • in liquids and solids, [27]
  • in solids, [31]
• Molecules, motion, [16]
  • size, [13]
• Moment of force, [99], [133]
• Momentum, [87]
  • law of, [92]
• Motion, [85]
  • accelerated, [86]
  • curvilinear, [88]
  • direction, [86]
  • first law, [87]
  • modes, [85]
  • second law, [92]
  • third law, [93]
  • uniformity, [86]
• Motor (electric), [339]
  • A. C. series, [482]
  • induction, [483]
  • synchronous, [485]
• Muffler, [224]
• Musical instruments, [377]
  • interval, [368]
  • nomenclatures, table, [369]
• Musical sounds, characteristics 364

• Newton's Laws of motion, [87]
• Nodes, in pipes, [384]
  • in strings, [379]
• Noise and music, [363]

• Ohm, [294]
• Ohm's Law, [298]
• Opera glass, [428]
• Optical illusions, [390], [404]
  • instruments, [423]
    • camera, [426]
    • eye, [423]
    • microscope, [427]
    • opera glass, [428]
    • prism field glass, [429]
  • projecting lantern, [427]
  • telescope, [428]
• Organ pipes, closed, [384]
  • nodes, [384]
  • open, [384]
• Oscillatory discharge, [448]
• Osmosis, [19]
• Outline Review,
  • current electricity, [325]
  • force and motion, [118]
  • heat, [227]
  • induced currents, [353]
  • light, [446]
  • magnetism and static electricity, [266]
  • sound, [387]
  • work and energy, [158]
• Overtones, [379]

• Pascal's principle, [41]
• Pendulum, compound, [115]
  • laws, [116]
  • simple, [115]
  • uses, [116]
• Pepper's ghost, [404]
• Permeability, [237]
• Phonograph, [383]
• Physics, definition, [4]
• Photometer, [394]
• Photometry, [393]
• Pitch, [365]
• Polarization, of light, [445]
  • of voltaic cells, [273]
• Portraits,
  • Bell, [431]
  • Edison, [285]
  • Faraday, [331]
  • Galileo, [89]
  • Gilbert, [217]
  • Helmholtz, [397]
  • Huygens, [397]
  • Joule, [217]
  • Kelvin, [331]
  • Marconi, [431]
  • Morse, [285]
  • Newton, [89]
• Potential, [257]
• Power, [123]
  • electric, [316]
  • power factor, [476]
  • transmission of electric, [476]
  • water, [152]
• Pressure, air, [56]
  • atmospheric, [58]
• Pressure, definition, [37]
  • effect on liquids and gases, [62]
  • law of liquid, [37]
• Prism field glass, [429]
• Projecting lantern, [427]
• Proof-plane, [244]
• Pulley, [139]
• Pumps, air, [66]
  • condensing, [67]
  • water (lift, [68], force, 69)

• Quality of musical tones, [380]

• Radiation, [176]
  • sun's, [178]
• Radio-activity, [457]
• Radiometer, [177]
• Radium, [457]
• Rainbow, [436]
• Reactance, [472]
• Reflection, light, [396]
  • multiple, [404]
  • sound, [360]
  • total of light, [413]
• Refraction, [410]
  • cause, [412]
  • index, [412]
  • light, [410]
  • in plates, prisms, and lenses, [413]
• Resolution of forces, [96]
• Resistance, cells in series, and parallel, [302]
  • conductors, [293]
    • in series and parallel, [299], [300]
  • unit, [294]
  • volt-ammeter method for finding, [304]
• Resonance, [371]
• Resonator, [373]
• Resultant, [81]
• Retentivity, [231]
• Right hand rule, [279]
• Rotary converter, [486]