Qualitative vs quantitative conceptions of homogeneity in nineteenth century dimensional analysis

DOI10.1080/00033790.2017.1372519MaRDI QIDQ4602002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sybil Gertrude de Clark

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1372519

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional analysishomogeneitydimensionqualitative conceptionquantitative conception

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) History of classical thermodynamics (80-03)

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