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... Experimental Physics , Cambridge . Fellow of Trinity College . President of the British Association , 1909-1910 . Author of A Treatise Electric Waves . on the Motion of Vortex Rings ; Application of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry ...
... Experimental Physics , Cambridge . Fellow of Trinity College . President of the British Association , 1909-1910 . Author of A Treatise Electric Waves . on the Motion of Vortex Rings ; Application of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry ...
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... Experimental Physiology . THOMAS KIRKUP , M.A. , LL.D. Author of An Inquiry into Socialism ; Primer of Socialism ; & c . REV . THOMAS KELLY CHEYNE , LL.D. , D.D. , D.LITT . See the biographical article : CHEYNE , T. K. SIR THOMAS LITTLE ...
... Experimental Physiology . THOMAS KIRKUP , M.A. , LL.D. Author of An Inquiry into Socialism ; Primer of Socialism ; & c . REV . THOMAS KELLY CHEYNE , LL.D. , D.D. , D.LITT . See the biographical article : CHEYNE , T. K. SIR THOMAS LITTLE ...
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... experiment succeeded . The docile , yet robust and hardy peasants , under their foreign leaders , gained an unbroken series of successes in the first Syrian War ; and after the bloody battle of Konia ( 1832 ) , where the raw Turkish ...
... experiment succeeded . The docile , yet robust and hardy peasants , under their foreign leaders , gained an unbroken series of successes in the first Syrian War ; and after the bloody battle of Konia ( 1832 ) , where the raw Turkish ...
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... experiment is subject to the force of gravity , and must , for the purpose of experiment , be supported by other forces . Such forces are usually applied by way of pressure upon a portion of the surface of the body ; and such pressure ...
... experiment is subject to the force of gravity , and must , for the purpose of experiment , be supported by other forces . Such forces are usually applied by way of pressure upon a portion of the surface of the body ; and such pressure ...
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... experimental verification . They do not admit of such verifica- tion , because the strain within a body cannot be measured . The quantities ( belonging to the same category ) which can be measured are displacements of points on the ...
... experimental verification . They do not admit of such verifica- tion , because the strain within a body cannot be measured . The quantities ( belonging to the same category ) which can be measured are displacements of points on the ...
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