What Is Energy?
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-51854-6 (ISBN)
Following the development of the concept, it provides an explanation of the trends in contemporary textbooks. The author's repetition, in his "History and Philosophy of Physics Laboratory", of Joule's famous experiment - the paddle wheel experiment - with a calorimeter as originally used by Joule and with a calorimeter as proposed in textbooks, is presented, yielding new insight into the phenomenon. Thus, science teachers andstudents will benefit from reading the book as well as historians, philosophers, students of the history and philosophy of science, and all who are interested in knowing about what it is that we call energy.
Ricardo Lopes Coelho did his PhD and Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin, where he taught for several years. He has taught History and Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon for more than two decades. More recently, he created the History and Philosophy of Physics Laboratory, where historical experiments are carried out. His main research interest is the understanding of scientific concepts and principles through their history. On the concept of energy, he has published numerous articles over the last fifteen years. In the present book, he revisits some of those theses in a more in-depth context, among other things, among other things performing an analysis of contemporary textbooks and presenting the results of experiments carried out in his laboratory, material that has not appeared in the literature to date.
Introduction.- What was Discovered in the 1840s?.- A New Concept.- Reification of Energy.- Trends in Contemporary Textbooks.- Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | History of Physics |
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 195 p. 37 illus., 8 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 469 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| Schlagworte | Energy as a Substance • Energy in Natural, Social Sciences and Ethics • Joule's Experiments for Determining the Equivalent • Joule’s Experiments for Determining the Equivalent • Planck's, Hertz's and Poincaré's Criticism of the Concept • Planck’s, Hertz’s and Poincaré’s Criticism of the Concept • The Concept of Energy • The Cooling of the Earth and the End of Life • The First Mechanical Equivalent of Heat • The Origin of the Laws of Thermodynamics • The Principle of Equivalence Instead of Energy Conservation • Trends in Contemporary Textbooks |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-51854-3 / 3031518543 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-51854-6 / 9783031518546 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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