Article ID: CBB534439403

Helmholtz, the Conservation of Force and the Conservation of Vis Viva (2019)

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This paper investigates the relationship between Helmholtz's formulation of the principle of the conservation of force and the two principles well known in rational mechanics as the principle of vis viva and the principle of the conservation of vis viva. An examination of the relevant literature from Leibniz to Duhamel reveals both Helmholtz's indebtedness to that tradition and his creative refashioning of it as he endeavoured to craft an argument that would both prohibit the construction of a perpetuum mobile and the efficacy of a supposed vital force and demonstrate the necessity of an ontology of mass points subject to attractive and repulsive central forces depending solely on distance.

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Authors & Contributors
Cahan, David L.
ten Hagen, Sjang L.
D'Agostino, Salvo
Wegener, Daan
Underwood, Ted
Pantalony, David Alexander
Concepts
Physics
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
Mechanics
Energy (physics)
Science and society
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
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