Reviews
Highly recommended.
Pursuing Power and Light is the best and most up-to-date treatment, especially for undergraduates, of the key concepts and figures of 19th-century physics.
Essential reading both for students in engineering and the sciences and for those in HPS departments... enjoyable and very interesting reading.
Pursuing Power and Light is a bravura performance that should inform and inspire many an undergraduate and general reader.
Pursuing Power and Light is a bravura performance that should inform and inspire many an undergraduate and general reader.
Concise, technically lucid, and remarkably readable.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A World Transformed
1. Steam and Work
2. Energy and Entropy
3. The Kinetic Theory: Chaos and Order
4. Electricity: Currents and Networks
5. Electromagnetism: Ether and Field
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: A World Transformed
1. Steam and Work
2. Energy and Entropy
3. The Kinetic Theory: Chaos and Order
4. Electricity: Currents and Networks
5. Electromagnetism: Ether and Field
6. Electric Power and Light
7. Into a New Century
Epilogue: Einstein at the Patent Office
Suggested Further Reading
Index