 | James Clerk Maxwell - Force and energy - 1876 - 144 pages
...different members of the system. CHAPTEB Y. ON WOKK AND ENERGY. ARTICLE LXXII.—DEFINITIONS. "\VoBK is the act of producing a change of configuration...in opposition to a force which resists that change. ENERGY is the capacity of doing work. When the nature of a material system is such that •if, after... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Force and energy - 1878 - 120 pages
...manner upon the different members of the system. r CHAPTER V. ON WORK AND ENERGY. DEFINITIONS. — Work is the act of producing a change of configuration...in opposition to a force which resists that change. Energy is the capacity of doing work. When the nature of a material system is such that if, after the... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1878 - 252 pages
...the system. CHAPTER V. ON WORK AND ENERGY. DEFINITIONS. — Work is the act of pro- ft • l * during a change of configuration in a system in opposition to a force which resists that change. Energy is the capacity of doing work. When the nature of a material system is such that if, after the... | |
 | Stephen Parkinson - 1881 - 440 pages
...Motion by a Master in physical science, the late Professor James Clerk Maxwell. He defines WORK as the act of producing a change of configuration in...in opposition to a force which resists that change ;—and ENERGY is the capacity of doing work. We shall limit our discussion to a few simple cases.... | |
 | John Trowbridge - Physics - 1884 - 408 pages
...space. When we do include this latter idea we are really speaking of work. We define work as follows: " Work is the act of producing a change of configuration in a system in opposition to force which resists that change." " When the nature of a material system is such that, if, after the... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Hall - Dynamics - 1886 - 50 pages
...says : " Work is done when resistance is overcome." On page 101 of his Matter and Motion we read : " Work is the act of producing a change of configuration...opposition to a force which resists that change." There can be no doubt that he regarded the act of setting a body in motion as the performance of ~... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater - Chemistry - 1887 - 450 pages
...form, or in both the quantity and form, of the energy of the system. Energy is the power of doing work. Work is the "act of producing a change of configuration...opposition to a force which resists that change." If one system does work on another system, one loses and the other gains energy ; and the energy lost... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1895 - 1398 pages
...quantity of chemical energj disappears EHergy, as defined by Maxwell, is the power of doing work, and work is the act of producing a change of configuration...in opposition to a force which resists that change. Chemical action produces sueh a change ol configuration in the molecules. Hence, as Maxwell says, "... | |
 | Alexander Philip - Labor - 1890 - 182 pages
...against force. Clerk Maxwell, in ' Matter and Motion,' p. 59, gives the full definition as follows : " Work is the act of producing a change of configuration...opposition to a force which resists that change." Work, then, in the scientific sense, exactly corresponds to the bodily labour of the political economist;... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1894 - 360 pages
...impact. 43. Work defined (B., 88 ; M. and M., 1O1 ; D., 39 ; Stewart's Conservation of Energy). — " Work is the act of producing a change of configuration...opposition to a force which resists that change." Thus when a weight is lifted from the earth a change in the configuration of the weight and the earth... | |
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Work is the act of producing a change of configuration in a system in opposition to a force which resists that change. 
