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The theoretical practices of physics : philosophical essays /
R.I.G. Hughes explores the theoretical practices that scientists use in doing physics. He offers a critical examination of accounts that notable physicists give of their practices, and investigates the roles of laws, disunities, models and representation, and computer simulation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Criticism, logical empiricism, and the general theory of relativity
- Theoretical practice : the Bohm-Pines Quartet
- Laws of physics, the representational account of theories, and Newton's Principia
- Modelling, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physics
- Models and representation
- The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics
- Theoretical explanation
- The discourse of physics exemplified by the Aharonov-Bohm effect.