Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and BeyondRutgers University Press, 2001 - 582 páginas Winner of the 2001 Joseph Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society Physics, the Human Adventure is the third edition of the classic text Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science. Authored by Gerald Holton, the text was a landmark in science education. It was the first modern textbook in physics (or in any other science) to make full and effective use of the history and philosophy of science in presenting for both the general and the science-oriented student an account of the nature of physical science. A second edition, prepared by Stephen G. Brush, brought the book up to date by increasing the coverage of topics in modern physics and by taking account of recent scholarly research in the history of science. In the new book Physics, The Human Adventure, each of the chapters has been reworked to further clarify the physics concepts and to incorporate recent physical advances and research. The book shows the unifying power of science by bringing in connections to chemistry, astronomy, and geoscience. In short, the aid of the new edition is to teach good physics while presenting physical science as a human adventure that has become a major force in our civilization. New chapters discuss theories of the origin of the solar system and the expanding universe; fission, fusion, and the Big Bang-Steady State Controversy; and thematic elements and styles in scientific thought. New topics include: - Theories of vision: does the eye send out rays or receive them? - Distances in the solar system - The prediction of the return of Halley's comet and analysis of deviations from Kepler's laws - Angular momentum conservation and Laplace's nebular hypothesis - Relation between symmetries and conservation laws: Emmy Noether's theorem - First estimates of atomic sizes - Consequences of the indistinguishability of elementary particles of the same kind - Applications of quantum mechanics to many-particle systems - Dirac's prediction of anti-matter - The anthropic principle and other controversial issues on the frontiers of research |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 83
... Nature of Heat 234 17.8 Mayer's Discovery of Energy Conservation 239 17.9 Joule's Experiments on Energy Conservation 242 17.10 General Illustration of the Law of Conservation of Energy 245 17.11 Conservation Laws and Symmetry 247 ...
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Contenido
CHAPTER | 3 |
CHAPTER 2 | 17 |
CHAPTER 3 | 27 |
CHAPTER | 28 |
CHAPTER 5 | 50 |
PART | 61 |
6 | 70 |
CHAPTER 7 | 77 |
PART | 339 |
CHAPTER 21 | 351 |
The KineticMolecular Theory | 359 |
CHAPTER 25 | 369 |
Thematic Elements and Styles | 407 |
2 | 447 |
CHAPTER 30 | 462 |
PART | 468 |
PART C | 101 |
CHAPTER 10 | 123 |
CHAPTER 13 | 156 |
On the Duality and Growth | 170 |
CHAPTER 14 | 187 |
PART | 201 |
CHAPTER 16 | 209 |
CHAPTER 18 | 251 |
PART | 263 |
The Atomic Theory of Chemistry | 275 |
CHAPTER 31 | 487 |
CHAPTER 28 | 499 |
in Science | 517 |
APPENDIXES | 531 |
APPENDIX III | 537 |
APPENDIX VI | 543 |
APPENDIX IX | 551 |
3 | 559 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond Gerald James Holton,Stephen G. Brush Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond Gerald James Holton,Stephen G. Brush Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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