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Where did the concept of energy come from?
Energy seems to me to be a very abstract thing, and while it clearly works out very nicely, I don't understand how anyone would have thought to come up with it. Where does the concept of energy find ...
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How did scientists come up with Work? What was it fundamentally defined as? [duplicate]
Now before I get into the questions I want to make a couple of things clear, I know that there were similar questions like this and I've been through (what i think is) all of them and none of the ...
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The possibility of free electrical energy?
Please excuse my lack of knowledge/understanding.
Question: Why Nikola Tesla's Free Energy concept was never worked upon? Even today.
Context: Now that we know Nikola Tesla was a genius and did ...
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Historical and philosophical reflexions about the concept of energy? [closed]
Perhaps you know the books:
Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics
by Max Jammer, which discusses mass and force from a ...
