The article discusses the different views held on thermal conduction by Pierre Simon Laplace, Jean Baptiste Biot and Joseph Fourier in the first decades of the 19th century. These authors had different conceptions on the role played by the molecular structure of matter and produced then different derivations of the diffusion equation for thermal conduction. Ohm was aware of the work on thermal conduction developed in the context of French molecular and mathematical physics and this played an important role in the elaboration of his famous theory of electrical conduction.
Ohm’s mathematico-molecular theory of electrical conduction in relation with the theories of thermal conduction of Laplace and Fourier.
FREGONESE, LUCIO
1995-01-01
Abstract
The article discusses the different views held on thermal conduction by Pierre Simon Laplace, Jean Baptiste Biot and Joseph Fourier in the first decades of the 19th century. These authors had different conceptions on the role played by the molecular structure of matter and produced then different derivations of the diffusion equation for thermal conduction. Ohm was aware of the work on thermal conduction developed in the context of French molecular and mathematical physics and this played an important role in the elaboration of his famous theory of electrical conduction.File in questo prodotto:
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