Staff profile
Dr Jennifer Coopersmith
Honorary Research Associate
Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering
School of Engineering and Mathematical SciencesDepartment of Civil Engineering and Physical Sciences
Building Applied Science 2, Room 2:24C, Bendigo
- T: +61 3 5444 7393
- F: +61 0 5444 7476
- E: j.coopersmith@latrobe.edu.au
- W: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ceps/
Qualifications
BSc, Ph.D London C Phys IOP
Area of study
Civil Engineering
Brief profile
- Jennifer's research interests are: - Micropalaeontology - Development of the concept of energy in physics from mid 19th C (Helmholtz)
- Jennifer has written a book, "Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein" to be published by the Oxford University Press, July 2010, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199546503.do The book seeks to explain the concept of energy, at a semi-popular level, by examining the history of its emergence in physics. It is aimed at historians and philosophers of science as well as at physicists and other scientists.
- She is a tutor at Swinburne University of Technology on their astronomy-online course, marking projects on measuring the gravitational constant, G, and on the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe.
- She is currently working on a book in popular science/philosophy of science entitled "Yes, we really know something: and other essays".
