Energy, the subtle concept : the discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein / Jennifer Coopersmith.
Edizione:
Rev. ed
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2015.
Descrizione fisica:
XVIII, 422 p. ; 22 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Praise for the first edition. 1. Introduction: Feynman's blocks 2. The quest for perpetually acting machines 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 on one years of mechanics: Newton to Lagrange via Daniel Bernoulli 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 heats of gases 11. Two contrasting characters: Fourier and Herapath 12. Sadi Carnot 13. Hamilton and Green 14. The mechanical equivalent of heat: Mayer, Joule and Waterston 15. Faraday and Helmholtz 16. The laws of thermodynamics: Thomson and Clasius 17. A forward look 18. Impossible things, difficult things 19. Conclusions: What is energy?. Appendix 1: Timeline. Appendix 2: Powers of ten for energy. Appendix 3: Extras. Appendix 4: Miniature portraits. Notes and references. Index
