Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons

From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Nahin, Paul J.

Princeton University Press

10/2020

232

Mole

Inglês

9780691207858

15 a 20 dias

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History of science and technology; Lord Kelvin; analytical theory of heat; Fourier series; Fourier transforms; Dirichlet’s discontinuous integral; heat equation in an infinite mass; heat equation in a sphere; heat equation in a long radiating wire; semi-infinite mass with a finite thickness; cooling sphere; semi-infinite mass with infinite thickness; circular ring; insulated sphere; electrical physics; Atlantic cable equation; 1866 cable; Duhamel’s integral; electronic computation; second order partial differential equation; flow of heat energy; molten sphere; AP-calculus; AP-physics; Charles Dicken’s mistress; Who is Fourier?; The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis; Elena Prestini; greenhouse effect; Fourier’s law of conduction; Joseph-Louis Lagrange; Peter Dirichlet, Claude Louis Navier; Fourier’s theorem on polynomial real roots; François Budan; Jacques Sturm