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Author(s): Jennifer Coopersmith
ISBN(s): 9780199546503, 0198716745
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 8.85 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198716745 
ISBN 13: 9780199546503
Author: Jennifer Coopersmith

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. Moreover, 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=klogW works and why temperature is IT.

Using only a minimum of mathematics, this book explains the emergence of the modern concept of energy, in all its forms: Hamilton’s mechanics and how it shaped twentieth-century physics, and the meaning of kinetic energy, potential energy, temperature, action, and entropy. It is as much an explanation 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 1st Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: The Subtle Concept of Energy

    1. Why Energy Matters

    2. Challenges in Understanding Energy

  2. Early Ideas: From Aristotle to Leibniz

    1. Ancient and Medieval Views

    2. Leibniz and the Concept of Vis Viva

    3. The Foundations of Energy

  3. The Age of Enlightenment and Classical Mechanics

    1. Newtonian Mechanics and Energy

    2. Conservation Principles Emerge

    3. Debates and Confusions about Energy

  4. Thermodynamics and the Birth of Modern Energy Concepts

    1. Heat and Work

    2. The First Law of Thermodynamics

    3. Carnot, Joule, and the Conservation of Energy

  5. Energy in the Age of Electromagnetism

    1. Faraday and Maxwell’s Contributions

    2. Field Energy and Electromagnetic Waves

  6. Relativity and the Transformation of Energy

    1. Einstein’s Revolutionary Insights

    2. Mass-Energy Equivalence

    3. Implications for Physics and Beyond

  7. Quantum Mechanics and the Blocks of Feynman

    1. The Quantum View of Energy

    2. Feynman’s Path Integrals and Diagrams

    3. Energy at the Subatomic Scale

  8. Modern Perspectives and Continuing Mysteries

    1. Energy in Contemporary Physics

    2. Dark Energy and Cosmology

    3. The Subtlety of Energy Today

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