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XXVII.—On the Centrifugal Theory of Elasticity, and its Connection with the Theory of Heat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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(1.) In February 1850, I laid before the Royal Society of Edinburgh a paper, in which the laws of the pressure and expansion of gases and vapours were deduced from the supposition, that that part of the elasticity of bodies which depends upon heat, arises from the centrifugal force of the revolutions of the particles of elastic atmospheres surrounding nuclei, or atomic centres. A summary of the results of this supposition, which I called the Hypothesis of Molecular Vortices, was printed in the Transactions of this Society, volume xx., as an introduction to a series of papers on the Mechanical Action of Heat; and the original paper has since appeared in detail in the Philosophical Magazine.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1853

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page 436 note * This coefficient corresponds to in the notation of my previous paper on the Mechanical Action of Heat.