Who discovered/ defined momentum and impulse?
Please, I want suggestions about materials/ books on the development of Classical mechanics? Something like a history of experiments.
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Have you read Newton's Principia? Momentum (his "motion") is the second definition. – Dec 23 '14 at 14:22
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no, but I know that he differentiated the momentum to get f=ma but what does the momentum physically mean how it's originated – Eng_Boody Dec 23 '14 at 14:23
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When I was growing up the two books that seemed most relevant on library shelves were these two books by Max Jammer (currently available as Dover reprints): Concepts of Force and Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics. – Dave L Renfro Dec 23 '14 at 15:08
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For Early Modern Physics, see Richard Westfall, Force in Newton's physics: the science of dynamics in the seventeenth century (1971). – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Dec 23 '14 at 18:52
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@DaveLRenfro pls what do you recommend i should read first – Eng_Boody Dec 23 '14 at 21:04
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I attempted to post an answer to this question, but was prevented from doing so by an impossible captcha. See http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245100/whats-with-the-captchas – Dec 24 '14 at 00:47
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The formation of the modern notion of momentum is described in the answer to What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?.
As for the history of mechanics in addition to Dave Renfro's excellent suggestions there is Dover's nice little book by Rene Dugas.
