Everything about Vis Viva totally explained
In the history of
science,
vis viva (from the
Latin for
living force) is an
obsolete scientific theory that served as an elementary and limited early formulation of the principle of
conservation of energy. It can be thought of as a type of
kinetic energy or of energy related to sensible motions.
Proposed by
Gottfried Leibniz over the period
1676-
1689, the theory was controversial as it seemed to oppose the theory of
conservation of momentum advocated by Sir
Isaac Newton and
René Descartes. The two theories are now understood to be complementary.
The theory was eventually absorbed into the modern theory of
energy though the term still survives in the context of
celestial mechanics through the
vis viva equation.
In detail
Although
ancient philosophers as far back as
Thales of Miletus had inklings of the law of conservation of energy, it was the
German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during
1676-
1689 who first attempted a mathematical formulation. Leibniz noticed that in many mechanical systems (of several
masses,
mi each with
velocity vi) the quantity:
»
was largely the result of the work of
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and
Jean-Victor Poncelet over the period
1819-
1839. The former called the quantity
quantité de travail and the latter,
travail mécanique and both championed its use in engineering calculation.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Vis Viva'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://vis_viva.totallyexplained.com">Vis viva Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
