03451nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-51855-3 DE-He213 20251030111714.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240215s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031518553 978-3-031-51855-3 10.1007/978-3-031-51855-3 doi QC6.9-9 PDX bicssc PH bicssc SCI055000 bisacsh PDX thema PH thema Lopes Coelho, Ricardo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72776 What Is Energy? [electronic resource] : An Answer Based on the Evolution of a Concept / by Ricardo Lopes Coelho. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. IX, 195 p. 37 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda History of Physics, 2730-7557 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 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. Physics History. 64549 Thermodynamics. 66400 Physics Philosophy. 70515 Mathematical physics. History of Physics and Astronomy. 68040 Thermodynamics. 66400 Philosophy of Physics. 70518 Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. 65563 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031518546 Printed edition: 9783031518560 Printed edition: 9783031518577 History of Physics, 2730-7557 72777 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51855-3 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 58226 58226