03085nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153072001600165072001500181072002300196072001500219072001400234100008400248245012000332250001800452264006900470300006300539336002600602337002600628338003600654347002400690490003500714505014700749520119900896650002202095650002002117650002502137650002602162650003802188650002002226650002702246650005702273710003402330773002602364776003602390776003602426776003602462830003502498856004602533978-3-031-51855-3DE-He21320251030111714.0cr nn 008mamaa240215s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315185537 a10.1007/978-3-031-51855-32doi 4aQC6.9-9 7aPDX2bicssc 7aPH2bicssc 7aSCI0550002bisacsh 7aPDX2thema 7aPH2thema1 aLopes Coelho, Ricardo.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aWhat Is Energy?h[electronic resource] :bAn Answer Based on the Evolution of a Concept /cby Ricardo Lopes Coelho.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aIX, 195 p. 37 illus., 8 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aHistory of Physics,x2730-75570 aIntroduction -- What was Discovered in the 1840s? -- A New Concept -- Reification of Energy -- Trends in Contemporary Textbooks -- Conclusion.  aThis 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 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. 0aPhysicsxHistory. 0aThermodynamics. 0aPhysicsxPhilosophy. 0aMathematical physics.14aHistory of Physics and Astronomy.24aThermodynamics.24aPhilosophy of Physics.24aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303151854608iPrinted edition:z978303151856008iPrinted edition:z9783031518577 0aHistory of Physics,x2730-755740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51855-3