Euler as physicist
By: Dieter Suisky.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9783540748632
Subjects: Euler, Leonhard, -- 1707-1783; Euler, Leonhard -- Physik; Physics -- History -- 18th century; Physik -- Euler, Leonhard
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: The predecessors : Descartes, Newton and Leibniz; title: Newton and Leibniz on time, space and forces; title: Newton and Leibniz on the foundation of the calculus; title: Euler's program for mechanics; title: The foundation of the calculus; title: Euler's early relativistic theory; title: Euler's Wirksamkeit, Helmholtz's treatment of evergy law and beyond; title: Euler's mechanics and Schrödinger's quantum mechanics.