Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons : : From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable / / Paul J. Nahin.
An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and universe, from how milk dissolves in coffee to how molten planets cool. The heat equation, a c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 37 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER 1. Mathematics and Physics
- CHAPTER 2. Fourier’s Mathematics
- CHAPTER 3. The Heat Equation
- CHAPTER 4. Solving the Heat Equation
- CHAPTER 5. William Thomson and the Infinitely Long Telegraph Cable Equation
- CHAPTER 6. Epilogue
- APPENDIX. How to Differentiate an Integral
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ALSO BY PAUL J. NAHIN