Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them /

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Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramificati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickover, Clifford A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Physical laws > History.
Science > Methodology > History.
Science > Philosophy > History.
Scientists > Biography.
Lois physiques > Histoire.
Sciences > Méthodologie > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Physical laws
Science > Methodology
Science > Philosophy
Scientists
Naturwissenschaften
Gesetz > Physik
Naturgesetz > Geschichte.
Physiker > Geschichte.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and backdrop
  • The laws of nature
  • The lawgivers
  • Is it fair to name a law after a person?
  • Theories and laws
  • Do we discover or invent laws?
  • Simple mathematics and reality
  • What is reality really?
  • Book organization and purpose
  • Distribution of law discovers through time
  • Where the lawgivers lived
  • When will the last law be discovered?
  • 250 B.C.-1700 A.D.
  • Archimedes' principle of buoyancy, c. 250 B.C.
  • Kepler's laws of planetary motion, 1609 and 1618
  • Snell's law of refraction, 1621
  • Hooke's law of elasticity, 1660
  • Boyle's gas law, 1662
  • Newton's laws of motion, gravitation, and cooling, 1687 and 1701
  • 1700-1800
  • Bernoulli's law of fluid dynamics, 1738
  • Lambert's law of emission, 1760
  • Bode's law of planetary distances, 1766
  • Coulomb's law of electrostatics, 1785
  • Charles's gas law, 1787
  • 1800-1900
  • Dalton's law of partial pressures, 1801
  • Henry's gas law, 1802
  • Gay-Lussac's law of combining gas volumes, 1808
  • Avogadro's gas law, 1811
  • Brewster's law of light polarization, 1815
  • The Dulong-Petit law of specific heats, 1819
  • The Biot-Savart law of magnetic force, 1820
  • Fourier's law of heat conduction, 1822
  • Ampère's circuital law of electromagnetism, 1825
  • Ohm's law of electricity, 1827
  • Graham's law of effusion, 1829
  • Faraday's laws of induction and electrolysis, 1831 and 1833
  • Gauss's laws of electricity and magnetism, 1835
  • Poiseuille's law of fluid flow, 1840
  • Joule's law of electric heating, 1840.
  • Kirchhoff's electrical circuit and thermal radiation laws, 1845 and 1859
  • Clausius's law of thermodynamics, 1850
  • Stoke's law of viscosity, 1851
  • Beer's law of absorption, 1852
  • The Wiedemann-Franz law of conductivity, 1853
  • Fick's laws of diffusion, 1855
  • Buys-Ballot's wind and pressure law, 1857
  • Eötvös's law of capillarity, 1866
  • Kohlrausch's laws of conductivity, 1874 and 1875
  • Curie's magnetism law and the Curie-Weiss law, 1895, generalized in 1907
  • 1900 and beyond
  • Planck's law of radiation, 1900
  • Bragg's law of crystal diffraction, 1913
  • Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, 1927
  • Hubble's law of cosmic expansion, 1929
  • The great contenders which says farewell to the laws and lawgivers by cataloging a far-ranging second set of eponymous laws, 1600-1700, 1700-1800, 1800-1900,1900 and beyond
  • Final comments on the beauty of mathematics in science
  • The beauty of mathematics
  • Great equations of science
  • Listmania and human achievement
  • "The greatest equations ever"
  • Nicaragua postage stamp list
  • Physics and religion.

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