History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 24 (4/13/00)

 

Topics  Natural philosophy and mechanical explanation   Thermodynamics   The first law:  energy   The second law:  entropy   Atoms and statistical mechanics   Electromagnetism   Electricity + magnetism = electromagnetism   Maxwellian electrodynamics   Philosophical debates   Hypothetical entities   Newtonian mechanics   World pictures   Discoveries   Prelude:  the cathode ray tube   X-rays (1895)   Radioactivity (1896)   The electron (1897)

Names and terms      Laplacian physics   rational mechanics   James Joule (1818-1889)  Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)   Robert Mayer (1814-1878)  Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888)  James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)  Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)  Michael Faraday (1791-1867)  field   ether   Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)   Ernst Mach (1838-1916)  positivism   cathode ray tube (CRT)   Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)  Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)   phosophorescence   Pierre (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934)    J.J. Thomson (1856-1940)

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