Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world /

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Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krieger, Martin H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Physicists.
Physics > Methodology.
Physics > Philosophy.
Science > Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Physiciens.
Physique > Méthodologie.
Physique > Philosophie.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Ethnologie.
physicists.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Essays.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The division of labor : the factory
  • Taking apart and putting together : the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer
  • Freedom and necessity : family and kinship
  • The vacuum and the creation : setting a stage
  • Handles, probes, and tools : a rhetoric of nature
  • Production machinery : mathematics for analysis and description
  • An epitome.

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