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Energy, the subtle concept : the discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein /
"Energy is at the heart of physics (and of huge importance to society) and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In tracking the history of energy, this book is filled with the thrill of the chase, the mystery of smoke and mirrors, and presents a fascinating human-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Feynman's blocks
- Perpetual motion is prohibited
- Vis viva: the fist 'block' of energy
- Heat: seventeenth century
- Heat in the eighteenth century
- The discovery of latent and specific heats
- A hundred and one years of mechanics: Newton to Lagrange via Daniel Bernoulli
- A tale of two countries: the rise of the steam engine and the caloric theory of heat
- Rumford, Davy and Young
- Naked heat: the gas laws and the specific heat of gases
- Two contrasting characters: Fourier and Herapath
- Sadi Carnot
- Hamilton and Green
- The mechanical equivalent of heat: Mayer, Joule and Waterston
- Faraday and Helmholtz
- The laws of thermodynamics: Thomson and Clausius
- A forward look: Maxwell, Boltzmann, Planck, Schrodinger and Einstein
- Impossible things; difficult things
- Conclusions.