NEW PERSPECTIVE ON RELATIVITY, A: AN ODYSSEY IN NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES
Bernard H Lavenda
Inbunden, 2011
3 400 kr
New Perspective on Thermodynamics
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 106 kr
Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.
Fler format och utgåvor
Beskrivning
More than to any other single individual, thermodynamics owes its creation to Nicolas-Leonard-Sadi ' Carnot. Sadi, the son of the "great Carnot" Lazare, was he- ily in uencedby his father. Not onlywas LazareMinister of War duringNapoleon's consulate, he was a respected mathematician and engineer in his own right. Ma- ematically, Lazare can lay claim to the de nition of the cross ratio, a projective invariant of four points. Lazare was also interested in how machines operated, - phasizing the roles of work and "vis viva," or living force, which was later to be associated with the kinetic energy. He arrived at a dynamical theory that machines in order to operate at maximum ef ciency should avoid "any impact or sudden change. " This was the heritage he left to his son Sadi. The mechanics of Newton, in his Principia, was more than a century old. It dealt with the mechanics of conservative systems in which there was no room for p- cesses involving heat and friction. Such processes would ruin the time reversibility of mechanical laws, which could no longer be derived by minimizing the difference between kinetic and potential energies.When Sadi wrote his only scienti c work in 1824, there were no laws governing the mechanical effects of heat. In fact, caloric theory was still in vogue, which treated heat as an imponderable uid that was c- served.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Recensioner i media
Innehållsförteckning
Hoppa över listan
Du kanske också är intresserad av
- Nyhet
NEW PERSPECTIVE ON RELATIVITY, A: AN ODYSSEY IN NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES
Bernard H Lavenda
Inbunden, 2011
3 400 kr
- Nyhet
Del 11
- Signerad!
Del 3
- Signerad!
- Nyhet
- Nyhet
- -19%