On Feynman's Discussion of Classical Physics Failing at Specific Heat

2021/12/22 by Blake C. Stacey, Stacey, Blake C.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.11678

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Abstract

I provide the backstory on how a historical error in the Feynman Lectures on Physics was corrected.

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