. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ( TltOMOTIVE FORCES IN THE VOITAIC CKIX. 497 I l)y the â e9 very 0 quoted, 1 botWCL'U \\y vepvt'- liem. No raiust till' act. ao-clectric tVorcncc of uiubor 2 is motliods of â store tl\eii' us n\ duty â encvality of cticuloiusl Olid pi^i't of called oil to 3 accept any lou liow one ect tbom al-. part of 0 and d substitute ty first men- lity. IS umbo'.' |tJ tbo foiu


. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ( TltOMOTIVE FORCES IN THE VOITAIC CKIX. 497 I l)y the â e9 very 0 quoted, 1 botWCL'U \\y vepvt'- liem. No raiust till' act. ao-clectric tVorcncc of uiubor 2 is motliods of â store tl\eii' us n\ duty â encvality of cticuloiusl Olid pi^i't of called oil to 3 accept any lou liow one ect tbom al-. part of 0 and d substitute ty first men- lity. IS umbo'.' |tJ tbo foiu'tli atiereffoctto f'. of contact. ttly plausible ), and wbicli [it it is wortli statement of t abbreviated, lotentials, the vet. Thereis pqual opposite fitlieroftbese tjtlio junction, lotliing of tlie Imall rcsidnal listinct cause. â hi tbink be ^tbis. When IbctNVCCU K and let with llty in motift' Q units of electricity aro tnmumitted apjaiust a force E, work J'] Q is dmio ; ^\ hen tlicy aro transmitted up a differejico of potential V âV, work Q (V âV) is done; but, in an open circuit coiitaiuinf? an clectromotivo junction, V âV is produced by and is equal to K. llenco at an electro- motive junction no work need be done by a current; in other words, the existence or non-existenco of a Peltier effect has nothing to do will, tho oxistenco or non-existence of a local I'j.^ Tho fallacy of tho ar<;umen4, in either form, lies in ovcr-prcoiso specification of locality ; gratuitously asserts as true for tho JiDicJlun. what is only proved to bo true for tho whole circuit. It assumes Ihat ilu-ro can be no work done at a junction if it bo perfectly easy to drive electricity cither way across itâ/.»'., if there be no work d(jno on Iho whole. 11. To exhibit tho fallacy, consider a hydrostatic analogy. Two vessels of water connecteil by a l)ipe in which is a motor of some kind, \v!ii(;h without leakage a specified t'orco on tho water and maintains


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