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- Title
Thermodynamics and Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.
- Authors
Kipnis, Nahum
- Abstract
This paper is the first part of a three-part project 'How the principle of energy conservation evolved between 1842 and 1870: the view of a participant'. This paper aims at showing how the new ideas of Mayer and Joule were received, what constituted the new theory in the period under study, and how it was supported experimentally. A connection was found between the new theory and thermodynamics which benefited both of them. Some considerations are offered about the desirability of taking a historical approach to teaching energy and its conservation.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of force &; energy; HISTORY of physics; CONSERVATION of energy; THERMODYNAMICS; WORK (Mechanics); MECHANICS (Physics); NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Science & Education, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 10, p2007
- ISSN
0926-7220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11191-014-9698-6