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Energy, the Subtle Concept
The Discovery of Feynman's Blocks from Leibniz to Einstein
Taschenbuch von Jennifer Coopersmith
Sprache: Englisch

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This book explains the idea of energy by tracing the story of its discovery, from Galileo through to Einstein. It explains the physics using the minimum of mathematics, presenting both a gripping historical narrative and a fascinating introduction to an elusive physical concept.
This book explains the idea of energy by tracing the story of its discovery, from Galileo through to Einstein. It explains the physics using the minimum of mathematics, presenting both a gripping historical narrative and a fascinating introduction to an elusive physical concept.
Über den Autor
Jennifer Coopersmith took her PhD in nuclear physics from the University of London, and was later a research fellow at TRIUMF, University of British Columbia. She was for many years an associate lecturer for the Open University (London and Oxford). She currently does similar work on astrophysics courses for Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne while based at La Trobe University in Bendigo, Victoria.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Introduction: Feynman's Blocks

  • 2: Perpetual Motion

  • 3: Vis viva, the First 'Block' of Energy

  • 4: Heat in the Seventeenth Century

  • 5: Heat in the Eighteenth Century

  • 6: The Discovery of Latent and Specific Heats

  • 7: A Hundred and One Years of Mechanics: Newton to Lagrange

  • 8: A Tale of Two Countries: the Rise of the Steam Engine and the Caloric Theory of Heat

  • 9: Rumford, Davy, and Young

  • 10: Naked Heat: the Gas Laws and the Specific Heat of Gases

  • 11: Two Contrasting Characters: Fourier and Herapath

  • 12: Sadi Carnot

  • 13: Hamilton and Green

  • 14: The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

  • 15: Faraday and Helmholtz

  • 16: The Laws of Thermodynamics: Thomson and Clausius

  • 17: A Forward Look

  • 18: Impossible Things, Difficult Things

  • 19: Conclusions

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198716747
ISBN-10: 0198716745
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coopersmith, Jennifer
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 216 x 134 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Coopersmith
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,531 kg
Artikel-ID: 104994335
Über den Autor
Jennifer Coopersmith took her PhD in nuclear physics from the University of London, and was later a research fellow at TRIUMF, University of British Columbia. She was for many years an associate lecturer for the Open University (London and Oxford). She currently does similar work on astrophysics courses for Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne while based at La Trobe University in Bendigo, Victoria.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Introduction: Feynman's Blocks

  • 2: Perpetual Motion

  • 3: Vis viva, the First 'Block' of Energy

  • 4: Heat in the Seventeenth Century

  • 5: Heat in the Eighteenth Century

  • 6: The Discovery of Latent and Specific Heats

  • 7: A Hundred and One Years of Mechanics: Newton to Lagrange

  • 8: A Tale of Two Countries: the Rise of the Steam Engine and the Caloric Theory of Heat

  • 9: Rumford, Davy, and Young

  • 10: Naked Heat: the Gas Laws and the Specific Heat of Gases

  • 11: Two Contrasting Characters: Fourier and Herapath

  • 12: Sadi Carnot

  • 13: Hamilton and Green

  • 14: The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

  • 15: Faraday and Helmholtz

  • 16: The Laws of Thermodynamics: Thomson and Clausius

  • 17: A Forward Look

  • 18: Impossible Things, Difficult Things

  • 19: Conclusions

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198716747
ISBN-10: 0198716745
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coopersmith, Jennifer
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 216 x 134 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Coopersmith
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,531 kg
Artikel-ID: 104994335
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