With Lavoisier, this man invented an ice calorimeter, which they used to show that respiration was a form of combustion. He c
With Lavoisier, this man invented an ice calorimeter, which they used to show that respiration was a form of combustion. He corrected Newtonian calculations of the speed of sound by taking into account heat compression. This man posited that if a being knew the state of the universe at a given point in time, then it could predict the entire future of the universe, a thought experiment known as his demon. His namesake equation gives rise to spherical harmonics and he investigated the stability of the solar system. His namesake transformation is the integral of zero to infinity of a function of t times e to the negative st dt. For 10 points, name this French scientist who is the namesake of the divergence of the gradient, written as del squared.
With Lavoisier, this man invented an ice calorimeter, which they used to show that respiration was a form of combustion.
Pierre-Simon Laplace