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Worksheet 1 Mechanics and thermodynamics |
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| Target date | 1/26/01 | ||||
| Questions | 1. Define mechanics.
2. What force of nature does Newton's Principia deal with? 3. Rational mechanics and Laplacian physics: which ... ... proposes hypotheses about the world's fundamental constituents and their interactions? ... develops sophisticated mathematical techniques at a very abstract level? 4. What are subtle or imponderable fluids? What is action at a distance? 5. What was Rumford's argument against the caloric theory of heat? 6. What did Joule measure? 7. What new concept emerged as a unifying notion in physics in the mid-19th century? 8. State the first and second laws of thermodynamics (any version of the latter)? |
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