Ideas of Hermann von Helmholtz, by Theme

[German, 1821 - 1894, Eventually Professor of Physics at Berlin University.]

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy

20646

Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Watson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy

20973

All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Papineau]