Popular Lectures and Addresses

Popular Lectures and Addresses

by William Thomson Baron Kelvin
Popular Lectures and Addresses

Popular Lectures and Addresses

by William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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Overview

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. While only in his twenties, he was awarded the University of Glasgow's chair in natural philosophy, which he was to hold for over fifty years. He is best known through the Kelvin, the unit of measurement of temperature named after him in consequence of his development of an absolute scale of temperature. These volumes collect together Kelvin's lectures for a wider audience. In a convivial but never condescending style, he outlines a range of scientific subjects to audiences of his fellow scientists. The range of topics covered reflects Kelvin's broad interests and his stature as one of the most eminent of Victorian scientists. Volume 1, published in 1889, includes talks about the constitution of matter and basic topics in physics such as light, heat, electricity and gravity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108029773
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/30/2011
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
Pages: 478
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

12. Protection of vegetation from cold; 13. The 'doctrine of uniformity' in geology briefly refuted; 14. On geological time; 15. On geological dynamics; 16. Presidential address to the British Association, Edinburgh, 1871; 17. Presidential address to the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 1874; 18. Review of evidence regarding the physical condition of the earth; 19. Geological climate; 20. The internal condition of the earth as to temperature, fluidity, and rigidity; 21. Polar ice-caps and their influence in changing sea levels; 22. On the rate of a clock or chronometer as influenced by the mode of suspension; 23. On a new astronomical clock; 24. On beats of imperfect harmonies; 25. On the origin and transformation of motive power; 26. On the sources of energy in nature available to man for the production of mechanical effect; 27. On the dissipation of energy; 28. The Bangor laboratories; 29. Presidential addresses; 30. Address delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of Joule's statue in Manchester Town Hall; 31. Isoperimetrical problems; Index.

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