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What is energy?an answer based on the evolution of a concept /

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Title/Author:	What is energy?by Ricardo Lopes Coelho.
Reminder of title:	an answer based on the evolution of a concept /
Author:	Lopes Coelho, Ricardo.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	ix, 195 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Force and energy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51855-3
ISBN:	9783031518553$q(electronic bk.)

What is energy?an answer based on the evolution of a concept /
Lopes Coelho, Ricardo.

What is energy?an answer based on the evolution of a concept /[electronic resource] :by Ricardo Lopes Coelho. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - ix, 195 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - History of physics,2730-7557. - History of physics..

Introduction -- What was Discovered in the 1840s? -- A New Concept -- Reification of Energy -- Trends in Contemporary Textbooks -- Conclusion.

This book provides a solution to the problem with the energy concept. This problem manifests itself in the fact that physicists clearly diverge regarding the question of what energy is. Some define it but others state that we do not know what it is. Although this is a problem for physicists who need to explain the concept, it is not a problem for physics that can be solved by laboratory means. Penetrating into the origin of the notion of energy, this book offers a clear idea of what was discovered and what was invented to interpret the findings. 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 and students 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.

ISBN: 9783031518553$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-51855-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

627514
Force and energy.

LC Class. No.: QC73

Dewey Class. No.: 531.6

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