Instructional Video

Crash Course History of Science #26: Thermodynamics

Curated by ACT

It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and others that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second. Trace the history of thermodynamics in this video. [12:28]

3 Views 1 Download
Concepts
energy transfer, entropy, heat transfer, insulators, lord kelvin, steam, temperature, thermodynamics, laws of thermodynamics
Show More Show Less
Additional Tags
absolute temperatures, caloric theory, carnot cycle, conservation of energy, count rumford, crash course history of science, first law of thermodynamics, joule, kelvin, second law of thermodynamics, steam engine, thermodynamic systems
Show More Show Less
Classroom Considerations
  • This video is hosted on YouTube