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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

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New York

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Oxford University Press

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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]370[-394( and index

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Jennifer Coopersmith

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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 -- 01. Naked heat: the gas laws and the specific heat of gases -- 11. Two contrasting characters: Fourier and Herapath -- 21. Sadi Carnot -- 31. Hamilton and Green -- 41. The mechanical equivalent of heat -- 51. Faraday and Helmholtz -- 61. The laws of thermodynamics: Thomson and Clausius -- 71. A forward look -- 81. Impossible things; difficult things -- 91. Conclusions

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History ، Force and energy

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، Physics

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Coopersmith, Jennifer.

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AU

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