Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: A New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Calero, Julián Simón (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 47
• Subjects: History.; Physics.; Fluids.; Mechanics.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Classical Mechanics.

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how h...