Conservation of energy

:This article is about the physics principle. For information on using energy resources sustainably, see Energy Conservation.

Bibliography

Modern accounts

• {{Book reference | Author=Kroemer, Herbert; Kittle, Charles | Title=Thermal Physics (2nd ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman Company | Year=1980 | ID=ISBN 0716710889 }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Nolan, Peter J. | Title=Fundamentals of College Physics, 2nd ed. | Publisher=William C. Brown Publishers | Year=1996 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Oxtoby & Nachtrieb | Title=Principles of Modern Chemistry, 3rd ed. | Publisher=Saunders College Publishing | Year=1996 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Papineau, D. | Title=Thinking about Consciousness | Publisher=Oxford University Press: Oxford | Year=2002 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Serway, Raymond A.; Jewett, John W. | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers (6th ed.) | Publisher=Brooks/Cole | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0534408427 }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Tipler, Paul | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics (5th ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0716708094}}

History of ideas

• {{Book reference | Author=Cardwell, D.S.L. | Title=From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age | Publisher=Heinemann: London | Year=1971 | ID=ISBN 0435541501 }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Guillen, M. | Title=Five Equations That Changed the World | Publisher= | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0349110646 }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Hiebert, E.N. | Title=Historical Roots of the Principle of Conservation of Energy | Publisher=Ayer Co Pub | Year=1981 | ID=ISBN 0405138806 }}
• Kuhn, T.S. (1957) ?Energy conservation as an example of simultaneous discovery?, in M. Clagett (ed.) Critical Problems in the History of Science pp.321?56
• {{Book reference | Author=Smith, C. | Title=The Science of Energy: Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain | Publisher=Heinemann: London | Year=1998 | ID=ISBN 0485114313 }}

Classic accounts

• {{Book reference | Author=Mach, E. | Title=History and Root of the Principles of the Conservation of Energy | Publisher=Open Court Pub. Co., IL | Year=1872 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Poincaré, H. | Title=Science and Hypothesis | Publisher=Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd; Dover reprint, 1952 | Year=1905 | ID=ISBN 0486602214 }}, Chapter 8, "Energy and Thermo-dynamics"