Euler as Physicist

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Suisky, Dieter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematics_$xHistory.; Mechanics.; Physics > History.; History of Physics.; History of Mathematics.; Physics, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74865-6

"Euler as Physicist" analyzes the exceptional role of Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) in the history of science and emphasizes especially his fundamental contributions to physics. Although Euler is famous as the leading mathematician of the 18th century, his contributions to physics are as im...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Predecessors. Descartes, Newton and Leibniz
• Newton and Leibniz on time, space and forces
• Newton and Leibniz on the foundation of the calculus
• Euler's program for mechanics
• The foundation of the calculus
• Euler's early relativistic theory
• Euler's Wirksamkeit and Helmholtz's treatment of the energy law and beyond
• Euler's mechanics and Schrd̲inger's quantum mechanics
• Summary.