The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder...

to explain James Joule's observations within a caloric framework as late as 1850. The caloric theory was largely obsolete by the end of the 19th century...

The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, kilocalorie, or kilogram...

atoms. Caloric theory – the theory that a self-repelling fluid called "caloric" was the substance of heat. Rendered obsolete by the mechanical theory of heat...

Wayback Machine. Isis, 34(5), 404–407. Brown, Sanborn C. (1967), "The Caloric Theory", Men of Physics: Benjamin Thompson – Count Rumford, Elsevier, pp. 16–24...

was a direct challenge to the caloric theory which held that heat could neither be created nor destroyed. Caloric theory had dominated thinking in the...

"Réflexions sur le phlogistique", he deprecates the phlogiston theory and proposes a caloric theory 1784 – Jan Ingenhousz describes Brownian motion of charcoal...

setting aside old, incorrect paradigms (e.g., aether theory of light propagation, caloric theory of heat, burning consisting of evolving phlogiston, or...

thought the theory of phlogiston was doomed, he stood by phlogiston and tried to make the theory work. Caloric theory – Obsolete scientific theory of heat...

Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace reviewed the two competing theories of vis viva and caloric theory. Count Rumford's 1798 observations of heat generation during...

the caloric theory of heat. To account also for changes of internal energy due to friction, and mechanical and thermodynamic work, the caloric theory was...

formulation, which preceded the proper definition of entropy and was based on caloric theory, is Carnot's theorem, formulated by the French scientist Sadi Carnot...

Q_{\mathsf {H}}} and Q C {\textstyle Q_{\mathsf {C}}} , as he assumed caloric theory to be valid and hence that the total heat in the system was conserved...

second law of thermodynamics. Historically, it was based on contemporary caloric theory, and preceded the establishment of the second law. The proof of the...

energy but is not, as sometimes mistakenly supposed (a relic of the caloric theory of heat), transfer of energy as heat, because one-way convection is...

to established theories of heat, and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Rumford was an opponent of the caloric theory of heat which held...

century following, wrestled with contravening concepts such as the caloric theory of heat. In the few years of his life (1796–1832) after the 1824 publication...

scientific theory that put forward an understanding of heat transfer in terms of the movement of caloric fluid was eliminated when a theory of heat as...

theories Virtual particle Welteislehre Footnotes Young ascribed aether to caloric theory, pairing light and heat, and cited passages from Newton such as: "A...

(or caloric) into mechanical effect is probably impossible, certainly undiscovered —But a footnote signalled his first doubts about the caloric theory, referring...

"Reflexions sur le phlogistique," he deprecates the phlogiston theory and proposes a caloric theory. In 1804, John Leslie observed that a matte black surface...

A caloric deficit (also known as calorie deficit, in British English calorific deficit) is any shortage in the number of calories consumed relative to...

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sophisticated, if speculative, description of gases based on the old caloric theory of heat, to which younger scientists such as Poisson were less committed...

dominant paradigms that Kuhn gives are: Newtonian physics, caloric theory, and the theory of electromagnetism. Insofar as paradigms are useful, they expand...

As a key concept in thermodynamics, the adiabatic process supports the theory that explains the first law of thermodynamics. The opposite term to "adiabatic"...

Maxwell's demon Heat death paradox Loschmidt's paradox Synergetics Theories Caloric theory Vis viva ("living force") Mechanical equivalent of heat Motive...

indicating that Sadi Carnot had, by the spring of 1832, rejected the caloric theory and accepted the equivalence of heat and work. In his notes, Carnot...

Maxwell's demon Heat death paradox Loschmidt's paradox Synergetics Theories Caloric theory Vis viva ("living force") Mechanical equivalent of heat Motive...

generalised heat engine, he had employed the clumsy and already unfashionable caloric theory. Clapeyron, in his memoire, presented Carnot's work in a more accessible...