Physics in the nineteenth century
"Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©1997
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©1997
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1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) : illustrations
9780585039206, 9780813524412, 9780813524429, 9780813557908, 0585039208, 0813524415, 0813524423, 0813557909
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Prologue: the century of science Nineteenth-century science in context Electromagnetism Heat and thermodynamics Energy and the energy principle Atomism The kinetic theory of gases and statistical mechanics Fin de siècle
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