Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy

130 Pages·1966·2.766 MB·German

by  C. Truesdell (auth.)

Six Lectures
on Modern Natural Philosophy
c.
Truesdell
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1966
ISBN 978-3-662-28239-7 ISBN 978-3-662-29756-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-29756-8
All rights, especially that of translation into foreign languages, reserved. It is also forbidden to re
produce this book, either whole or in part, by pholomechanical means (photostat, microfilm
and/or microcard). © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1966 . Originally published by Springer-
Verlag Berlin . Heidelberg in 1966 . Softcover reprint of the hardcover ist edition 1966 . Library of
Congress Catalog Card Number 66-11278
Title No. 1321
Dedicated to my mother
Helen Truesdell Heath
in lifelong gratitude for her efforts to teach me di.rcipline.
method, scholarship, taste, and sryle.
Foreword
These lectures were first given during my tenure of a Walker
Ames Visiting Professorship in the Department of Astronautics and
Aeronautics at the University of Washington, November 2-12,
1964. I am grateful for the interest shown there and for the
tranquil hospitality of Dr. JOHN BOLLARD and Dr. ELLIS DILL,
which allowed me the leisure sufficient to write the first manuscript.
I thank Dean ROBERT Roy and Dr. GEORGE BENTON for the
unusual honor of an invitation to deliver a series of public lectures
at my own university.
Apart from the footnotes on pp. 49, 50, and 85, which have
been added so as to answer questions allowed by the slower pace
of silence, and the obviously necessary note on p. 106, the lectures
of this second series are here printed as read, February 9-25,
1965. Thus I may call these, in imitation of a famous example,
" Bal timore Lectures".
Acknowledgment
The first lecture is based largely upon my Bingham Medal
Address of 1963, part of which it reproduces verbatim. The filth
lecture may be regarded as a partial summary of my course on
ergodic theory at the International School of Physics, Varenna,
1960. Much of the last lecture runs parallel to my article "The
Modern Spirit in Applied Mathematics", ICSU Review of World
Science, Volume 6, pp. 195-205 (1964), and some paragraphs are
taken from my address to the Fourth U.S. National Congress of
Applied Mechanics (1961). For permission to reprint the passages
in question I am grateful to the editors of the volumes, to Inter
science Publishers, to the Elsevier Publishing Company, and to
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
To the U.S. National Science Foundation is owed double
gratitude: first, for partial support of much of the research by the
various savants who created the new science these lectures resume,
and, second, for partial support of the writing of the lectures
themselves.
For their kind criticism of the manuscript I am grateful to
Messrs. COLEMAN, ERICKSEN, NOLL, and TOUPIN.
Contents
Page
I. Rational mechanics of materials
II. Polar and oriented media . . . . 23
III. Thermodynamics of visco-elasticity. 35
IV. Electrified materials . . . . . . . . 53
V. The ergodic problem in classical statistical mechanics 65
VI. Method and taste in natural philosophy. . . . . . .. 83
Appendix: Text of the Chairman's Introduction to the Collo
quium on the Foundations of Mechanics and Thermody
namics held at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards,
Washington, October 21-23, 1959 .......... 109
Six Lectures
on Modern Natural Philosophy
c.
Truesdell
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1966
ISBN 978-3-662-28239-7 ISBN 978-3-662-29756-8 (eBook)
DOl 10.1007/978-3-662-29756-8
All rights, especially that of translation into foreign languages, reserved. It is also forbidden to re
produce this book, either whole or in part, by photomechanical means (photostat, microfilm
and/or microcard). © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1966. Originally published by Springer
Verlag Berlin. Heidelberg in 1966 . Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1966 . Library of
Congress Catalog Card Number 66-11278
Title No. 1321
l)edicated to ~~ ~other
Helen Truesdell Heath
in lifelong gratitude for her efforts to teach ~e discipline.
~ethod, scholarship, taste, and style.