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Download full textTyndall, John – D. Appleton and Company, 1863
This textbook is a course on properties of heat. The first seven lectures of the course deal with "thermometric heat" and its generation and consumption in mechanical processes; the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat; the conception of heat as molecular motion; the application of this conception to the solid, liquid, and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Heat, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Hammond, Dick E. – 1985
This paper examines how the revolution in human thinking, with the smaller revolution in astronomy begun by Nicolus Copernicus, has plunged science educators into the new Age of Information. Examples which illustrate this development and change in human thinking (from Copernicus' time to the present) are provided from such disciplines as…
Descriptors: High Schools, Information Science, Science Education, Science History
Peer reviewedWilson, David B. – American Journal of Physics, 1981
Surveys the research of scientists like Joule, Kelvin, Maxwell, Clausius, and Boltzmann as it comments on the basic conceptual issues involved in the development of a more precise kinetic theory and the idea of a kinetic atom. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Atomic Structure, College Science, Higher Education, Kinetic Molecular Theory
