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© Stephen G. Brush

The Kind of Motion We Call Heat
A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in the 19th Century

Stephen G. Brush

Amsterdam, New York & Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976. xxxix + 769 pp. (2 books) Reprint, American Elsevier, 1986. ISBN 0-444-87008-3 (book 1); 0-444-87009-1 (book 2). www.elsevier.com

    BOOK 1: PHYSICS AND THE ATOMISTS

    Part A: Introductory Survey

  1. The Kinetic Theory in the History of Physics

    Part B: Personalities

  2. Herapath
  3. Waterston
  4. Clausius
  5. Maxwell
  6. Boltzmann
  7. Van der Waals
  8. Mach

    BOOK 2: STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES

    Part C: Problems

  9. The wave theory of heat
  10. Foundations of statistical mechanics 1845-1915
  11. Interatomic forces and the equation of state
  12. Viscosity and the Maxwell-Boltzmann transport theory
  13. Heat conduction and the Stefan-Boltzmann law
  14. Randomness and irreversibility
  15. Brownian movement

    Part D: Bibliography

  16. The literature of kinetic theory


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