New impression — A text-book, Longmans, Green and Co, 1899, 364 p. With corrections and additions by lord Rayleigh.
Meaning of the word Temperature
The Mercurial Thermometer
Heat as a Quantity
Diffusion of Heat by Conduction and Radiation
The three Physical States of Bodies
Thermometry, or the registration of temperature
Definition of Higher and Lower Temperature
Temperatures ol Reference
Different Thermometric Scales
Construction of a Thermometer
The Air Thermometer
Other Methods of Ascertaining Temperatures
Calorimetry, or the measurement of heal
Selection of a Unit of Heat
All Heat is of the same Kind
Ice Calorimeters
Bunsen's Calorimeter
Method of Mixture
Definitions of Thermal Capacity and Specific Heat
Latent Heat of Steam
Elementary dynamical principles
Measurement of Quantities
The Units of Length, Mass, and Time, and their Derived Units
Measurement of Force
Work and Energy
Principle of the Conservation of Energy
Measurements of internal forces and their effects
Longitudinal Pressure and Tension
Definition of a Fluid. Hydrostatic Pressure
Work done by a Piston on a Fluid
Watt's Indicator and the Indicator Diagram
Elasticity of a Fluid
Line of equal temperature on the indicator diagram
Relation between Volume, Pressure, and Temperature
Isothermal Lines of a Gas
Isothermal Lines of a Vapour in Contact with its Liquid
Steam Line and Water Line
Continuity of the Liquid and Gaseous States. Experiments of Cagniard de la Tour and Andrews
Adiabatic lines
Properties of a Substance when heat is prevented from entering or leaving it
The Adiabatic Lines are Steeper than the Isothermals
Diagram showing the Effects of Heat on Water
Heat engines
Caniot's Engine
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Carnot's Function and Thomson's Absolute Scale of Temperature
Maximum Efficiency of a Heat Engine
Thermodynamic Scale of Temperature
Entropy
Fictitious Thermal Lines
Relations between the physical properties of a substance
Four Thermodynamic Relations
The two Modes of Defining Specific Heat
The two Modes of Defining Elasticity
Latent heat
Relation between the Latent Heat and the Alteration of the Volume of the Substance during a Change of State
Lowering of the Freezing Point by Pressure
Thermodynamics of gases
Cooling by Expansion
Calculation of the Specific Heat of Air
On the intrinsic energy of a system of bodies
Intrinsic Energy defined
Available Energy
Dissipation of Energy
Mechanical and Thermal Analogies
Prof. Gibbs' Thermodynamic Model
On free expansion
Theory of a Fluid rushing through a Porous Plug
Determination of the Dynamical Equivalent of Heat
Determination of the Absolute Scale of Temperature
Determination of heights by the barometer
Principle of the Barometer
The Barometer in a Diving Bell
Height of the ' Homogeneous Atmosphere
Height of a Mountain found by the Barometer
On the propagation of waves of longitudinal disturbance
Waves of Permanent Type
Velocity of Sound
On radiation
Definition of Radiation
Interference
Different Kinds of Radiation
Prevost's Theory of Exchanges
Rate of Cooling
Effects of Radiation on Thermometers
On convection currents
How they are Produced
Joule's Determination of the Point of Maximum Density of Water
On the diffusion of heat by conduction
Conduction through a Plate
Different Measures of Conductivity
Conduction in a Solid
Sketch of Fourier's Theory
Harmonic Distributions of Temperature
Steady and Periodic Flow of Heat
Determination of the Thermal Conductivity of Bodies
Applications of the Theory
On the diffusion of fluids
Coefficient of Diffusion
Researches oh Graam and Loschmidt
On capillarity
Superficial Energy and Superficial Tension
Rise of a Liquid in a Tube
Evaporation and Condensation as Affected by Capillarity
Table of Superficial Tension
[Superficial Viscosity]
On elasticity and viscosity
Different Kinds of Stress and Strain
Coefficient of Viscosity
Molecular theory of the constitution of bodies
Kinetic and Potential Energy
Evidence that Heat is the Kinetic Energy of the Molecules of a Body
Kinetic Theory of Gases
Deduction of the Laws of Gases
Equilibrium of a Vertical Column
Diffusion, Viscosity, and Conduction
Evaporation and Condensation
Electrolysis
Radiation
Limitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Properties of Molecules