Physics for poets

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Physics for poets

Robert H. March

McGraw-Hill, c1996

4th ed

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Previous ed.: 1992

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-255) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This classic text retains the flavour of earlier editions but includes updated discussions of chaos, relativity, quantum theory and cosmology. The text appeals to a wide range of students because of the authors entertaining writing style and use of descriptive examples instead of equations which make the presentation easier to follow.

Table of Contents

  • A vast and most excellent space
  • toward a science of mechanics
  • the denouncement - Newton's laws
  • the moon and the apple
  • the romance of energy
  • one last part for the machine
  • waves
  • does the Earth really move
  • the birth of relativity
  • the wedding of space and time
  • E=mc2 and all that
  • did God have any choice
  • the atom returns
  • Rutherford probes the atom
  • the atom and the quantum
  • particles and waves
  • does God play dice?
  • Schrodinger's cat
  • the dreams stuff is made of.

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Details
  • NCID
    BA3427981X
  • ISBN
    • 0070402485
  • LCCN
    95018959
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii,282p
  • Size
    24cm
  • Classification
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