INDEX
Reading edition
Aberration, spherical, 408
Absolute scale of temperature, 164
Absorptions of gases by solids and liquids, 29
Accelerated motion, 86
Acceleration, 87
Adhesion, 21
Aeroplane, 97
Air, aspirator, 67 brake, 74 cushion, 46 height (of atmosphere), 64 pressure, 56 pump, 66 weight, 56
Alternators, 481
Alternating current, 337, 466
Amalgamation, 273
Ammeter, 291
Ampere, 291
Archimedes' principle, 48
Arc light, 321
Armature, 335
Artesian wells, 44
Audion, 463
Aurora borealis, 453
Balloon, 72
Barometer, 59
Beats, 376
Boiling, laws, 208 point, 207
Boyle's Law, 63
Breezes, land and sea, 181
British thermal unit, 162
Brownian movements, 16
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
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
Science, definition, 2
Screw, 144
Shadows, 390
Single phase currents, 479
Siphon, 70
Siren, 366
Solidification, change of volume during, 203
Solutions, 27
Sound, compared with light, 388 interference, 374 media, 355 nature, 356 reflection, 360 rule for finding velocity, 367 source, 354 speed, 355 transmission in air, 359
Specific heat, 200 method of determining, 201
Spectroscope, 438
Spectrum, 433
Spherical aberration, 408
Spinthariscope, 458
Stability, 108
Standpipe, 46
Static and current electricity compared, 287 electrical machines, 262
Steam engine, 213 turbine, 225
Storage battery, 312
Stress and strain, 94
Sublimation, 199
Surface tension, 22
Sympathetic vibration, 372
Telegraph, 283 wireless, 450
Telephone, 349 receiver, 349 transmitter, 350 wireless, 460
Telescope, 428
Temperature, 162 absolute scale, 164
Tempered scale, 370
Theory, 3
Thermometer, air, 167 centigrade, Fahrenheit, 163 gas, 167
Thermos bottle, 176
Thermostat, 188
Three-color printing, 440
Three-phase currents, 479
Three wire transmission, 480
Torricelli's experiment, 57
Trade winds, 182
Transformer, 345, 467 uses, 347
Turbine, steam, 225 water, 154
Vacuum cleaner, 76 pan, 210
Velocity, 86
Vibration strings, 378 sympathetic, 372
Visual angle, 424
Viscosity, 20
Volt, 295
Voltaic cell, 270 advantages, 274 amalgamation, 273 local action, 273 polarization, 273 simple, 270
Voltmeter, 295
Water wheels, 152 overshot, 152 turbine, 154 undershot, 153
Watt, 123, 317
Wave theory, of light, 442
Waves, beats, 376 interference, 374 longitudinal, 358 sound, 358 transverse, 358 visible, 357
Wedge, 144
Weight, 104
Wheatstone bridge, 304
Wheel and axle, 136
Wind instruments, 383
Wireless telegraphy, 450 telephony, 460
Work, 119 units, 119
"X" rays 454