A mass of glacier ice when distorted by application of a force must, however, undergo precisely the transformations which took place in forming the lens from the fragments of ice.
Thus at any electrical station or electric tram terminus, these transformations of various forms of energy are very familiar sights.
Thus we get transformations of energy in the same way that we had transformations of force, and conservation of energy in the same way that we had conservation of force.
So that starting from the coal, we have several transformations therefrom into the forms of heat, light, motion, and finally mechanical energy, which results in Work.
That leads us to the next point regarding this principle of transformation, which is that all transformations of energy take place in fixed proportions.
Instead, therefore, of getting such terms as Transformation of Forces, we now get Transformations of Energy.
Again, if energy be the energy of motion, and the principle of the transformations of energy holds good, then it is equally true that all modes of motion are also transformable.
The reverse series of transformations occurs when this final modification is heated.
The characteristic distinctions which exist between aliphatic and benzenoid compounds make the transformations of one class into the other especially interesting.
Transformations of electrical into chemical energy are witnessed in the processes of electrolysis (q.
In 1845 a further contribution to the study of allotropy was made by Anton Schrotter, who investigated the transformations of yellow and red phosphorus, phenomena previously noticed by Berzelius, the inventor Of the term "allotropy.
By transformations of the carbonyl group, and at the same time of the hydroxyl group, many interesting types of nitrogen compounds may be correlated.
Considering derivatives primarily concerned with transformations of the hydroxyl group, we may regard our typical acid as a fusion of a radical R.
The first and third transformations (reckoned in order with increasing temperature of the transition point) are attended by an increase in volume, the second with a contraction; the solubility follows the same direction, increasing up to 82.
In this change into the form of heat is to be sought the ultimate permission which makes all transformations of energy, all motions, possible.
Unless motion can in some way pass off, how can there be all these transformations of energy?
Now, if these great transformations can be brought about by accident, cannot similar transformations be brought about by a reasonable design?
At any rate, if one starts to bring them about, one starts with the assurance that transformations are not impossible, since they have occurred.
Ideas being only accessible to crowds after having assumed a very simple shape must often undergo the most thoroughgoing transformations to become popular.
In order to form some idea of the perfect beauty and splendor of form which is in store for us, we must first look at some of the transformations which take place in the natural order.
Tieck; and it is very evident how close the relation is between Tieck's first conception of the romantic ideal and Hoffmann's transformations of music into the emotional outbursts and weird visions of Kreisleriana.
During these transformations he has all manner of wonderful conversations.
In the course of an analytic treatment we discover the continuous transformations of the libido symbol in the dream current, till a form is reached which serves as an attempt to adapt oneself to actuality.
Much of the strange and outre, as well as the commonplace, in human activity conceals energy transformations of inestimable value in the work of sublimation.
Such transformations present no difficulty to the chemist.
The living object AB, the mirror MN, and the lens LL, must all be placed in a moveable car for the purpose of producing the variations in the size of the phantasms, and the transformations of one figure into another.
One cheek will appear in a state of health and colour, while the other retains the paleness of death; and, as the individuals change their position, they will exhibit the most extraordinary transformations of colour.
There is nothing unreasonable in this, but a similar condition--in the reverse direction--exists with the transformations of energy.
Does there possibly exist the same relation between mental activity and the transformations of energy and matter, as we have seen to exist between the latter two?
But we have seen, when mental activity occurs in our mind, chemical and physical transformations accompany it, are coincident with it, and apparently indissoluble from it.
It is true that mental effort, intellectual work, is accompanied by transformations of matter, chemical changes in the brain, and by transformations of energy.
What transformations he worked within the walls were largely known by hearsay through the medium of Aunt Kassie, the old negress who served him as cook and chambermaid and was his only house servant.
This is precisely the same change which we are enabled to trace in the early transformations of Aryan religion.
The professional mythologist thinks he has completed his task when he has traced a myth through its transformations in story and language back to the natural phenomena of which it was the expression.
The discovery of the conservation of energy and of its transformations had revealed to us the unity of force.
Similar transformationsare frequent in the classical myths.
These transformations are believed, in some instances, to be effected by a mere change of the external covering, like that of the cloud-maidens referred to in chapter I.
Nevertheless, the belief in the probability of such transformations must have been very general and deeply rooted, otherwise such impostors could not have practised their villainy with the impunity they did.
Though much attention has been paid to thetransformations of this particular insect, it is somewhat curious that it is still a matter on which opinions are divided, as to how the insect succeeds in making its egress.
At last it occurred to her that she might go to the old castle, and see what transformations the newcomers had wrought.
The confused transformations which work in stagnant water are difficult to study.
Metamorphoses are the business of the gods: the transformations and the contingent disorders of great persons who float above us are clouds impossible to comprehend and perilous to study.
But in these tales such transformations are for the most part passive; they occur not at the will of the person transformed, but through sorcery practised on them by some one else.
Such changes and transformations in the teaching of religion are applicable to the ordinary conditions of life, but they are not important or essential.
These transformations or changes from one condition to another are equivalent to death.
In the various transformations or passages from kingdom to kingdom the virtues expressed by the atoms in each degree are peculiar to that degree.
Changes and transformations are not applicable to that eternal reality.
So far as we can measure the transformations involved, there are only two distinct steps in the process, viz.
Hence the rapid and innumerable transformations of that architecture which owns but three centuries, so striking after the stagnant immobility of the Romanesque architecture, which owns six or seven.
From the different transformations which these undergo all the different tissues in vegetables are formed; for instance, the spiral and dotted ducts, woody fibre, and so on.
The natural world is composed of objects and events which theory may regard as transformations of a hypothetical energy; an energy which M.
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