Who discovered/ defined momentum and impulse?
Please, I want suggestions about materials/ books on the development of Classical mechanics? Something like a history of experiments.
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$\begingroup$ Have you read Newton's Principia? Momentum (his "motion") is the second definition. $\endgroup$– robDec 23, 2014 at 14:22
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$\begingroup$ no, but I know that he differentiated the momentum to get f=ma but what does the momentum physically mean how it's originated $\endgroup$– Eng_BoodyDec 23, 2014 at 14:23
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$\begingroup$ When I was growing up the two books that seemed most relevant on library shelves were these two books by Max Jammer (currently available as Dover reprints): Concepts of Force and Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics. $\endgroup$– Dave L RenfroDec 23, 2014 at 15:08
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$\begingroup$ For Early Modern Physics, see Richard Westfall, Force in Newton's physics: the science of dynamics in the seventeenth century (1971). $\endgroup$– Mauro ALLEGRANZADec 23, 2014 at 18:52
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$\begingroup$ @DaveLRenfro pls what do you recommend i should read first $\endgroup$– Eng_BoodyDec 23, 2014 at 21:04
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The formation of the modern notion of momentum is described in the answer to What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?.
As for the history of mechanics in addition to Dave Renfro's excellent suggestions there is Dover's nice little book by Rene Dugas.
