Physics for poets

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Physics for poets

Robert H. March

McGraw-Hill, c1992

3rd ed.

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Designed for one-term courses on physics for liberal arts majors, this book aims to give an insight into the connections between physics and cultural history. The book uses no mathematics beyond basic high-school algebra. The author has twice won awards from the American Institute of Physics.

目次

  • Falling bodies and the birth of mechanics
  • toward a science of mechanics
  • the denouement - Newton's laws
  • the moon is falling
  • the romance of energy
  • completing the job - the classical physicist's "world view"
  • waves
  • surprise - the earth doesn't move!
  • origins of relativity - how long is a moving train?
  • the wedding of space and time
  • E=mc2 and all that
  • did God have any choice?
  • the atom returns
  • Rutherford picks apart the atom
  • the atom and the quantum
  • when is a particle a wave?
  • does God play dice?
  • whatever became of reality?
  • the dreams stuff is made of.

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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB28702107
  • ISBN
    • 0070402450
  • LCCN
    91026991
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 280 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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