Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons : From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable /

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An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and universe, from how milk dissolves in coffee to how molten planets cool. The heat equation, a c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nahin, Paul J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Heat equation.
Heat.
Mathematical physics > History > 19th century.
Telegraph cables > History.
Telegraph cables.
Transatlantic cables > History.
SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics.
1866 cable.
AP-calculus.
AP-physics.
Atlantic cable equation.
Charles Dicken's mistress.
Dirichlet's discontinuous integral.
Duhamel's integral.
Elena Prestini.
Fourier series.
Fourier transforms.
Fourier's law of conduction.
Fourier's theorem on polynomial real roots.
François Budan.
History of science and technology.
Jacques Sturm.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
Lord Kelvin.
Peter Dirichlet, Claude Louis Navier.
The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis.
Who is Fourier?.
analytical theory of heat.
circular ring.
cooling sphere.
electrical physics.
electronic computation.
flow of heat energy.
greenhouse effect.
heat equation in a long radiating wire.
heat equation in a sphere.
heat equation in an infinite mass.
insulated sphere.
molten sphere.
second order partial differential equation.
semi-infinite mass with a finite thickness.
semi-infinite mass with infinite thickness.
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