Energy the subtle concept jennifer coopersmith

Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein by Jennifer Coopersmith (Author). Vitality is at the coronary heart of physics (and of big significance to society) and yet no e book exists specifically to clarify it, and in easy terms. In monitoring the historical past of energy, this e-book is stuffed with the thrill of the chase, the mystery of smoke and mirrors, and presents an interesting human-curiosity story. Following the historical past supplies a crucial support to understanding: this ebook explains the mental revolutions required to grasp power, revolutions as profound as these stemming from Relativity and Quantum Theory. Texts by Descartes, Leibniz, Bernoulli, d'Alembert, Lagrange, Hamilton, Boltzmann, Clausius, Carnot and others are made accessible, and the engines of Watt and Joule are explained.

Many desirable questions are coated, together with:

- Why simply kinetic and potential energies - is yet another elementary than the opposite?

- What are heat, temperature and motion?

- What is the Hamiltonian?

- What have engines to do with physics?

- Why did the steam-engine evolve solely in England?

- Why S=klogW works and why temperature is IT.

Using solely a minimum of arithmetic, this book explains the emergence of the modern idea of energy, in all its types: Hamilton's mechanics and the way it formed twentieth-century physics, and the meaning of kinetic power, potential vitality, temperature, motion, and entropy. It's as much an evidence of fundamental physics as a history of the fascinating discoveries that lie behind our knowledge today. 

Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein 

 Jennifer Coopersmith (Author)

392 pages

Oxford University Press, USA (August 13, 2010)

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