units of kelvin in Lord Kelvin's honour. While the existence of a coldest possible temperature, absolute zero, was known before his work, Kelvin determined...
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in degrees Celsius can be converted to kelvin by adding 273.15. The 19th century British scientist Lord Kelvin first developed and proposed the scale...
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marine systems company Kelvin Scottish, Scottish transport company HMS Kelvin (F37), a ship SS Lord Kelvin, a cable ship USS Kelvin, a fictional starship...
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The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (after Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) is a fluid instability that occurs when there is velocity shear in a single...
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University of Glasgow are two pitch-based demonstrations by Lord Kelvin from the 19th century. Kelvin placed some bullets on top of a dish of pitch, and corks...
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Heat death paradox (section Kelvin's solution)
of an infinitely old universe. It was formulated in February 1862 by Lord Kelvin and expanded upon by Hermann von Helmholtz and William John Macquorn...
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independently by the British physicist Lord Kelvin in 1865 and by the German physicist Woldemar Voigt in 1890. The Kelvin–Voigt model, also called the Voigt...
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long time period. The hypothesis of heat death stems from the ideas of Lord Kelvin who, in the 1850s, took the theory of heat as mechanical energy loss...
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Absolute zero (redirect from 0 Kelvin)
James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and...
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The Kelvin water dropper, invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to...
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produce a wake pattern, first explained mathematically by Lord Kelvin and known today as the Kelvin wake pattern. This pattern consists of two wake lines...
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Four-terminal sensing (redirect from Kelvin sensing)
Four-terminal sensing is also known as Kelvin sensing, after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who invented the Kelvin bridge in 1861 to measure very low resistances...
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theory of the atom was a 19th-century attempt by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) to explain why the atoms recently discovered by chemists came in only...
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John Perry (engineer) (section Challenging Lord Kelvin)
Physical Society of London. Perry was a great admirer of his employer, Lord Kelvin. In the printing of his 1890 lecture on spinning tops, Perry inscribed...
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example, the metre has the symbol m, but the kelvin has symbol K, because it is named after Lord Kelvin and the ampere with symbol A is named after André-Marie...
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SS Lord Kelvin was a cable-laying ship which served during the Second World War. Initially owned by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Lord Kelvin was...
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unit of temperature, chosen in honour of Lord Kelvin, thus traces its origins to the river. The hydronym Kelvin is probably of Brittonic origin. It may...
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Thermodynamic temperature (redirect from Kelvin temperature)
defined by Lord Kelvin in terms of a macroscopic relation between thermodynamic work and heat transfer as defined in thermodynamics, but the kelvin was redefined...
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Second law of thermodynamics (redirect from Kelvin–Planck statement)
statements being the statement by Rudolf Clausius (1854), the statement by Lord Kelvin (1851), and the statement in axiomatic thermodynamics by Constantin Carathéodory...
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continuity equations much simpler). This wave is named after the discoverer, Lord Kelvin (1879). In a stratified ocean of mean depth H, whose height is perturbed...
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commentary in turn attracted the attention of William Thomson (later known as Lord Kelvin) and Rudolf Clausius. Thomson used Carnot's analysis to develop an absolute...
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based upon the professional relationship between William Thomson (later-Lord Kelvin) (1824–1907), Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University from...
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by Lord Kelvin, head of the academy, who believes ambition and innovation to be an insult. Following a debate on the whereabouts of the thief, Kelvin makes...
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Stokes' theorem (redirect from Kelvin-Stokes theorem)
Stokes' theorem, also known as the Kelvin–Stokes theorem after Lord Kelvin and George Stokes, the fundamental theorem for curls or simply the curl theorem...
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Thomson was ennobled as Lord Kelvin in appreciation of his many scientific accomplishments. In 1895 John Perry challenged Kelvin's figure on the basis of...
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Temperature (section Kelvin scale)
Besides the internationally agreed Kelvin scale, there is also a thermodynamic temperature scale, invented by Lord Kelvin, also with its numerical zero at...
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magnets on screws or rack and pinions. This was improved again when Lord Kelvin patented in the 1880s another system of compass and which incorporated...
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introduced in the field of thermodynamics by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1852. Lord Kelvin deduced that a subset of the above-mentioned irreversible...
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is named in honor of William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin. The original form of the Kelvin equation, published in 1871, is: p ( r 1 , r 2 ) = P...
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also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016. Lord Smith of Kelvin serves as Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde and Chair of...
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