The Kinetic theory of gases : an anthology of classic papers with historical commentary /
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| Author / Creator: | Brush, Stephen G. |
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| Imprint: | London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2003. |
| Description: | xi, 647 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of modern physical sciences 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5545702 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. The Nature of Gases and of Heat
- 1. The Spring of the Air / Robert Boyle
- 2. The Repulsion Theory / Isaac Newton
- 3. On the Properties and Motions of Elastic Fluids, especially Air / Daniel Bernoulli
- 4. The Existence of Fire / George Gregory
- 5. The Forces of Inorganic Nature / Robert Mayer
- 6. On Matter, Living Force, and Heat / James Joule
- 7. The Conservation of Force / Hermann von Helmholtz
- 8. The Nature of the Motion which We Call Heat / Rudolf Clausius
- 9. On the Mean Length of the Paths Described by the Separate Molecules of Gaseous Bodies / Rudolf Clausius
- 10. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases / James Clerk Maxwell
- 11. On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat / Rudolf Clausius
- Pt. II. Irreversible Processes
- 1. On the Dynamical Theory of Gases / James Clerk Maxwell
- 2. Further Studies on the Thermal Equilibrium of Gas Molecules / Ludwig Boltzmann
- 3. The Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy / William Thomson
- 4. On the Relation of a General Mechanical Theorem to the Second Law of Thermodynamics / Ludwig Boltzmann
- 5. On the Three-body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics / Henri Poincare
- 6. Mechanism and Experience / Henri Poincare
- 7. On a Theorem of Dynamics and the Mechanical Theory of Heat / Ernst Zermelo
- 8. Reply to Zermelo's Remarks on the Theory of Heat / Ludwig Boltzmann
- 9. On the Mechanical Explanation of Irreversible Processes / Ernst Zermelo
- 10. On Zermelo's Paper "On the Mechanical Explanation of Irreversible / Ludwig Boltzmann
- Pt. III. Historical Discussions
- 1. Gadflies and Geniuses in the History of Gas Theory / Stephen G. Brush
- 2. Interatomic Forces and Gas Theory from Newton to Lennard-Jones / Stephen G. Brush
- 3. Irreversibility and Indeterminism: Fourier to Heisenberg / Stephen G. Brush
- 4. Proof of the Impossibility of Ergodic Systems: the 1913 Papers of Rosenthal and Plancherel / Stephen G. Brush
- 5. Statistical Mechanics and the Philosophy of Science: Some Historical Notes / Stephen G. Brush
- Pt. IV. A Guide to Historical Commentaries: Kinetic Theory of Gases, Thermodynamics, and Related Topics.
