Obituary of Professor Emeritus Herbert Priestley
Some beautiful writing in this news article and in this obituary about a man with an interesting and productive life. In an article in Knox …
Physics
Improving Physics Education: Wisdom From 1969 That is Still Relevant
In “High School and College Physics: Can We Match Impedances?” (Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 6 : No. 3 , Article 5), Dr. Herbert Priestley …
So Precise, the Moon Affects its Construction
In “The £2.5 million fighter jet system that’s so precise it’s affected by the MOON’S gravity” (Daily Mail, 9 April 2015), Victoria Woollaston writes: “Aside …
Evolutionary Fitness
Art DeVany (See also his bio and writings on Amazon.) says of his Evolutionary Fitness: Evolutionary Fitness is a result of my personal and scientific …
Galileo Quote on Aristotle and Epistemology
“I should even think that in making the celestial material alterable, I contradict the doctrine of Aristotle much less than do those people who still …
The Origin of the Concept of “Potential Energy” 3
In “On the Phrase Potential Energy” (1867), William Rankine wrote, in response to a criticism by John Herschel: In the course of an essay by …
The Origin of the Concept of “Potential Energy” 2
In “On the general law of the transformation of energy” (The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Series 4, Volume 5, …
The Origin of the Concept of “Energy”
In “History of energy,” they write on Wikipedia: The word energy derives from Greek ἐνέργεια (energeia), which appears for the first time in the 4th …