TABLES OF CONSTANTS Figures refer to pages Absorption of gases in water, 163. 108. Atomic heats and atomic weights, Boiling points, 298, 313. Dielectric constants, 389 Elasticity, coefficients, 158, 159. Electrochemical equivalents, 418. Fraunhofer lines, 660 Indices of refraction, 575, 590. Latent heats of vaporization, 301. Rigidity coefficients, 159. Specific heats, 267, 271, 273. Vapor pressures, 296, 297. Velocity of ions, 420. Velocities of sound, 190. Volume elasticity and compressibil- ity, 158. Wave lengths of light, 647, 660. INDEX Aberration of light, 554. Figures refer to pages Archimedes' principle, 118, 127. Aberration, spherical, 571, 593; Armature, drum, 508; ring, 506; chromatic, 599. Absolute scale of temperature, 262. Absorption, of gases, 163; spectra, Accommodation of the eye, 609. Achromatic, prism, 598; lenses, 599. Action and reaction, 24. Adams, 2, 8. Air pumps, 133-135. Alloy, magnetic, 353. Alternating currents, 514; curve of, 516; motors, 520-522. Amagat, 131. Amici prism, 598. Ammeter, 475, 478. Ampère, 414. Ampère, defined, 458; 502, 503: Analyzer and polarizer, 663. Angular momentum, 92; conserva- Angular velocity, 88. Anisotropic, 152. Anode, 417. Arago's disc, 492. Arc, electric, 447. Displacements, 10; compounded and resolved, 11, 12. Doppler's principle, 202; in spec- Double weighing, 39. Double refraction, 672, 673. Drops, formation of, 175. DuFay, 357. Dulong and Petit's law, 272. Dynamics, 9. Dynamo electric machines, 504; Dyne, 56. Ear, 234; trumpet, 199. Earth, mass of, 105; magnetism, 337-343; potential, 396, 404. Eddy currents, 509. Edison storage cell, 430. Efflux of liquid and gases, 144, 145. Electricity, 356; theories of, 381. Electrochemical equivalents, 417. duction, 484, 490; units, 458, 501 423. Electromotive force, 410; of in- Electron theory, 545, 627. Electroplating, 423. Electroscope, 358, 407. Energy, 42; potential, 43; kinetic, 43, 65; conservation, 44; avail- Equilibrium, of particle, 26; of Equipotential, surface, 376, 396; region, 376. Erg, 64. Ether, the luminiferous, 560. to, 302. Ewing, 462. Exchanges, law of, 321. Expansion, solids, 250; liquids, 256; gases, 260, 263. coefficients of, 253, 259, 260, 261. Falling bodies, 59. Féry, 323. Field magnets, series and shunt, 510. Floating, bodies, 119; coil, 468. Focus, principal, 566; conjugate, 566. Foot-poundal, 65. Force, electric, law of, 359. Force, 3, 19; compounded and re- Foucault, currents, 509; pendulum, Friction, 43-47; in fluids, 146. |