Part 12 (1/2)

Professor Tait, in the work referred to in the previous Article, gives exa heads--

1st Winds

2nd Currents of Water

3rd Hot Springs and Volcanoes

It can be readily seen that winds are a fory, as we have innuy which they exert

Advantage is taken of that kinetic energy by y of the wind is i sails, and thence to thethe result, as, for exa of water

The pressure or energy of winds has even been calculated, the following figures being examples--

VELOCITY IN MILES PER HOUR FORCE IN LBS PER SQ FOOT

1 mile 005 lb per sq foot

5 ” 123 ” ” ”

10 ” 496 ” ” ”

15 ” 111 ” ” ”

20 ” 198 ” ” ”

30 ” 45 ” ” ”

40 ” 79 ” ” ”

50 ” 125 ” ” ”

In the case of currents of water, whether they are in the form of river currents or ocean currents, as has already been pointed out in the previous article, the question of potential energy, or energy of position, is associated with their kinetic energy Water is taken at a certain elevation, and then allowed to fall to a lower level, and in its fall froy is used to drive y of the water being transformed into the motion of the machinery This ht enerated, or it may drive an electric reat underlying principle of either kinetic or potential energy rests in the fact, that wherever we have energy of any kind or sort, whether it be associated ater, wind, or Aether, there we have the capacity to do work, the ay that exists in the y

In Art 50 it has been indicated that the Aether possesses several kinds of ht and heat, we learn that the Aether possesses certain motions which are always exerted in a direction froht- and heat-waves That being so, it conclusively follows that the Aether possesses kinetic energy, and therefore, possessing this energy, it also possesses the power to do work Itwith a frictionlessso, wherever we have the Aether in y or the power to do work; and that ill correspond to the particular kind of motion which is exerted on any body by the aetherial motions, and will be equally subject to Newton's Laws of Motion

ART 56 _Energy and Motion_--An advance, however, as to the y has been s it more into harmony with that simplicity of conception, and accordance with experience which are the very foundation of all philosophy Instead of the ter used another term to denote the forces which form the life of the universe, and that ter says: ”All energy is energy of motion” (_British association Report_, 1899)

Thus motion is the fundamental principle of all phenoy hich we are faes of one form of motion into another Thus we shall see that heat is a ht is another mode of motion, and that electricity is also a mode of motion I need hardly point out that this advance in our conception of energy is strictly in accord with the Rules of Philosophy First, it is siy, whether that energy be potential energy or kinetic energy, it does not convey to the mind some definite concrete fact, as does the statement that a body possessesor not, understands and is familiar with the word Motion, as it is a coy was simpler in conception than Newton's term Force, so Motion is siue and indefinite tery of motion of some kind or sort, we state that which is philosophically correct

It is also in accord with the second Rule of Philosophy, in that it is strictly in harmony with experience and observation Look where ill, or at ill, there we findthe innumerable stars, or in our own solar syste the world of ato as absolute rest, or stagnation, is unknown in the universe Wherever there is matter, there we find motion of some kind or other It ht, or rotatory motion as electricity, but motion of some sort is inseparably connected with all y of the universe is the energy ofto the second Rule of Philosophy is absolutely correct

Further, I wish to premise that by the use of the tery, the third Rule of Philosophy will be fulfilled For if all phenoht, electricity, be due to different modes of motion, then Gravitation should be explained from the physical standpoint by some kind of aetherial motion also This I can safely premise will be done, and in the later chapters of this work, Gravitation will be shown to be due to the motions of the aetherial , all the Rules of Philosophy will be fully satisfied, and Gravitation will then be brought into line with all the other fornetism, which are in themselves modes of motion, as will be shown in subsequent articles

ART 57 _Conservation of Motion_--If it be true that all energy is the energy of ht also to apply to all the modes of motion, and in its place we should then have the principle of the conservation of the various forms of motion This defined would be, that the total aht, electricity, netism, and Gravitation also, if that be due to the eable