Concepts of modern physics : the Haifa lectures /
This book highlights foundational issues in theoretical physics in an informal, open style of lecture. It expresses the flow of ideas in physics - from the period of Galileo and Newton to the contemporary ideas of the quantum and relativity theories, astrophysics and cosmology - as explanations for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Philosophy of science
- Classical precursors for the concepts of modern physics
- Nineteenth century physics: atomism and continuity
- Early anomalies and elementary particles
- From the old quantum theory to quantum mechanics
- Quantum mechanics: Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and the Copenhagen school
- Concepts of the theory of relativity
- From special to general relativity
- The universe
- Conflicts in the foundations of the quantum and relativity theories.