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A collection of twelve illustrated lectures, first published in 1863, discussing the properties of heat and its associated physical processes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature of heat; 3. Expansion of bodies by heat; 4. Vibrations and tones produced by the contact of bodies of different temperatures; 5. Application of the dynamical theory; 6. Convection in air; 7. The conduction of heat a transmission of molecular motion; 8. Radiant heat; 9. The intensity of radiant heat; 10. Absorption of heat by gases and vapours; 11. Action of odorous substances on radiant heat; 12. Dew; Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
John Tyndall FRS was an important 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific prominence developed in the 1850s as a result of his research into diamagnetism. Later, he produced discoveries in the fields of infrared radiation and air physical characteristics, establishing the link between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859. Tyndall also authored over a dozen science books that introduced a large number of people to cutting-edge 19th-century experimental physics. From 1853 to 1887, he taught physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1868. Tyndall was born at Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, Ireland. His father was a local police constable, descended from Gloucestershire emigrants who arrived in southeast Ireland around 1670. Tyndall attended the local schools (Ballinabranna Primary School) in County Carlow until his late teens and was most likely an assistant teacher near the conclusion of his tenure there. Technical drawing and mathematics were particularly important subjects in school, with some applications to land surveying. In his late teens, he was engaged as a draftsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in 1839, and he later went to the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain in 1842.
Zusammenfassung
Professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution between 1853 and 1887, the physicist John Tyndall (1820–93) sought to share scientific understanding with the Victorian public. In this collection of twelve illustrated lectures, first published in 1863, he discusses the properties of heat and its associated physical processes.
