Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 5

A six-volume collection of the scientific papers of Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), one of Britain's most eminent mathematical physicists.

Part I; 96. On the origin and transformations of motive power; 97. On the discovery of the true form of Carnot's function; 98. Discussion of J. P. Joule's paper on 'A Surface Condenser'; 99. Remarks on the interior melting of ice; 100. On the stratification of vesicular ice by pressure; 101. On the thermal effect of drawing out a film of liquid; 102. On the importance of making observations on thermal radiation during the coming eclipse of the sun; 103. On the convective equilibrium of temperature in the atmosphere; 104. On the protection of vegetation from destructive cold every night; 105. On the dynamical theory of heat [thermal dissipation of energy of vibration of solids]; 106. On the dissipation of energy; 107 Dr. Balfour Stewart's meteorological blockade; 108. On the ultramundane corpuscles of Le Sage; 109. On steam-pressure thermometers of sulphurous acid, water, and mercury; 110. On a sulphurous acid crysophorus; 111. On a realised sulphurous acid steam-pressure thermometer, and on a sulphurous acid steam-pressure differential thermometer; also a note on steam-pressure thermometers; 112. On a differential thermoscope founded on change of viscosity of water with change of temperature; 113. On a thermomagnetic thermoscope; 114. On a constant pressure gas thermometer; 115. On the elimination of air from water; 116. On a method of determining the critical temperature for any liquid and its vapour without mechanism; 117. On the sources of energy in nature available to man for the production of mechanical effect; 118. Accélération thermodynamique du mouvement de rotation de la terre; 119. On the efficiency of clothing for maintaining temperature; 120. On osmotic pressure against an ideal semi-permeable membrane; 121. On a differential method for measuring differences of vapour pressures of liquids at one temperature and at different temperatures; 122. Animal thermostat; 123. The power required for the thermodynamic heating of buildings; Cosmical and Geological Physics; part of the universe; 159. On Homer Lane's problem of a spherical gaseous nebula; 160. On the formation of concrete matter from atomic origins; 161. The problem of a spherical gaseous nebula; Molecular and Crystalline Theory.