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18 questions linked to/from What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?
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Why don't we learn Buridan's laws of motion?
My question is why has Jean Buridan faded into obscurity while Newton is venerated as a God by scientists? Here is a description of Buridan's impetus theory:
The concept of inertia was alien to the ...
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What is the history of the energy concept and its measurement?
Could someone please explain how the concept of energy was originally conceived and how it evolved over time to our current understanding of it? Also how did people come about various ways of ...
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Did Newton know about non-inertial frames?
When answering a Physics.SE question, I made a claim that Newton realized that $F=ma$ worked in some frames, which are called "inertial frames." Nowadays, we know that there are non-...
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Was there early opposition to Newton's mechanics?
Scientific theories are rarely accepted immediately. Even if the evidence for a theory is impeccable, there will be some stragglers who resist it for lack of understanding. More interesting is when a ...
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How did Huygens derive the conservation law for of kinetic energy?
In the book 'Energy - The Subtle Concept' by Energy, the Subtle Concept by Jennifer Coopersmith the author says that Huygens was the first to use the term $mv^2$ in physics. He was considering elastic ...
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When were fictitious forces introduced
Some problems in mechanics are simplified by considering the action of "fictitious forces". These appear in accelerated frames, such as circular movements. When were these first considered so? Did ...
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How did Newton establish the conservation laws in the Principia?
In the contemporary axiomatic description the conservation laws in mechanics are deduced from Noether's Theorem using the homogeneity and isotropy of space and time.
How did Newton, if he did, ...
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When were the modern notions of work and energy created
Reading through Wikipedia says that Coriolis was the first to introduce the notion of work, described as "weight lifted through a height".
Our modern conception of work is of a force that realizes a ...
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Who was first to integrate Newton's equations of motion to derive the conservation laws for mechanical energy and momentum?
I'm wondering who is the first person in the history who came up with an idea to integrate Newton's $F=ma$ to obtain the law of mechanical energy conservation? And When did it happen?
Also I have the ...
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Was the Principia ever used as a textbook of physics for the people wanting to learn?
For example in the early days, when it was the only way to learn Newtonian mechanics? Was it good as a textbook?
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Are there any direct comments by Isaac Newton on Leibniz's living force / vis-viva?
The living force or the vis-viva is a quantity usually attributed to Leibniz (although there were a few other people who identified it as a conserved quantity in certain collisions earlier). Many ...
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History of Energy
Can anyone suggest me some book/article explaining how and why the quantity named 'Energy' made its way into physics?
I have gone through "Lectures on Physics" (Vol. 1) by R.P. Feynman and have been ...
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Do other branches of modern science have interpretations like Quantum Mechanics does?
As a layperson, when one learns about Quantum Mechanics, one also learns about the various interpretations of QM-- Many Worlds, Collapse, Pilot Wave theory, etc.
However, as far as I can tell (from ...
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How did people figure out the formula for mechanical work, and related it to energy?
What developments led to the definition of Work as the dot product of Force and Displacement vectors?
I did some searching but couldn't find a satisfying answer. According to what I have read, the ...
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What's the difference between Galileo's "impeto" and "momento"?
In Galileo's Two New Sciences, he describes an experiment demonstrating pendulum motion and how the pendulum will rise to the same height from where it started its fall. This discussion can be found ...
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