Energy, the subtle concept : the discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein
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Energy, the subtle concept : the discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-394) and index
Summary: "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-interest story. Following the history provides a crucial aid to understanding: this book explains the intellectual revolutions required to comprehend energy, revolutions as profound as those 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 fascinating questions are covered, including: - Why just kinetic and potential energies - is one more fundamental than the other? - What are heat, temperature and action? - What is the Hamiltonian? - What have engines to do with physics? - Why did the steam-engine evolve only in England? - Why S
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- 1. Introduction: Feynman's blocks
- 2. Perpetual motion is prohibited
- 3. Vis viva: the fist '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