How successfully have engineers been at harnessing and manipulating and how important has been to our existence?
Explain how energy is vital to us all. How we use it to build the structures that protect us all.
What is energy and what makes it so useful to us?
Describe the works of Gottfried Leibniz, his research and words ” if you could be harness the living force, it could give mankind unimaginable power”
Describe the works of Denis Papin and his research into how heat could be converted in some form of useful action.
In theory this invention could augment the power of man to infinity.
Carnot said “if you could take away the steam engine away from Britain, then the British empire would collapse.” He proposed to analyze the source of British power analyzing the way in which fire and heat engines work. Describe his writings on the reflection on the motive of power of fire which describes the fundamental way all heat engines work. The new field of science called thermo-Dynamics.
Describe how Carnot uncovered the cosmic truth about the steam engine.
Created a new science of heat and motion – Thermodynamics.
Describe how in the end there is no escaping entropy. Its the ultimate move from order to decay and disorder that rules us all. The mortality of everything from homes to a human life to the university itself.
The process of change and degradation is unavoidable. The universe itself must one day die.