Matter and Motion (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Clerk Maxwell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440066558 ISBN 13 : 9781440066559

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Foundations of energy and motion, explained through classic ideas of dynamics

This nonfiction work surveys how energy appears in different forms, from motion (kinetic energy) to configuration (potential energy), and how heat and work reveal energy’s presence in physical processes. It traces how scientists have named and understood energy, from early ideas to the modern terms used today, and how energy underpins measurements and explanations across mechanics, thermodynamics, and chemistry. The text draws a through-line from theory to practical reasoning about real systems. A core focus is the principle that governs change in physical systems: the action that links possible motions to actual motion. It shows how the least action principle, expressed in precise mathematical form, connects initial conditions with final states and remains valid even when problems are reframed with different variables. The discussion ties these ideas to familiar topics like orbits, waves, and the transfer of energy, highlighting why this approach is powerful across physics.

• Learn how kinetic and potential energy arise from motion and configuration, with clear examples.
• See how energy relates to work, heat, and chemical processes in changing systems.
• Understand the idea of action and how variational principles organize the laws of motion.
• Explore how coordinates, velocities, and momenta frame the equations that describe dynamics.

Ideal for readers of classic physics and anyone curious about how motion, energy, and the laws that govern them fit together.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Matter and Motion

Physical Science, which up to the end of the eighteenth century had been fully occupied in forming a conception of natural phenomena as the result of forces acting between one body and another, has now fairly entered on the next stage of progress - that in which the energy of a material system is conceived as determined by the configuration and motion of that system, and in which the ideas of configuration, motion, and force are generalised to the utmost extent warranted by their physical definitions.

To become acquainted with these fundamental ideas, to examine them under all their aspects, and habitually to guide the current of thought along the channels of strict dynamical reasoning, must be the foundation of the training of the student of Physical Science.

The following statement of the fundamental doctrines of Matter and Motion is therefore to be regarded as an introduction to the study of Physical Science in general.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

To become acquainted with these fundamental ideas, to examine them under all their aspects, and habitually to guide the current of thought along the channels of strict dynamical reasoning, must be the foundation of the training of the student of Physical Science. The following statement of the fundamental doctrines of Matter and Motion is therefore to be regarded as an introduction to the study of Physical Science in general.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440066558
• ISBN 13: 9781440066559
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 181
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