Drawing Physics : 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs /

"The subject of "Seeing Physics" is our understanding of the physical universe as organized into 51 one thousand-word essays each anchored in a drawing that conveys a key idea. Each essay expands on the science of the drawing and places it in a broader human context. Many people have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lemons, Don S. (Don Stephen), 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Physics.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Physique > Histoire > Ouvrages illustres.
Physique > Histoire.
Physics > History > Pictorial works.
Physics > History.
Pictorial works.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE)
  • Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE)
  • Phases of the moon (448 BCE)
  • Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE)
  • Aristotle's universe (350 BCE)
  • Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE)
  • Archimedes' balance (250 BCE)
  • Archimedes' principle (250 BCE)
  • The size of the earth (225 BCE)
  • Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE)
  • The optics of vision (1020 CE)
  • Oresme's triangle
  • Leonardo and earthshine
  • Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos
  • The impossibility of perpetual motion
  • Snell's law
  • The mountains on the moon
  • The moons of Jupiter
  • Kepler's laws of planetary motion
  • Galileo on free fall
  • Galileo on projectile motion
  • Scaling and similitude
  • The weight of air
  • Boyle's law
  • Newton's theory of color
  • Free-body diagrams
  • Newton's cradle
  • Newtonian trajectories
  • Huygens' principle
  • Bernoulli's principle
  • Electrostatics
  • Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit
  • Oersted's demonstration
  • Carnot's simplest heat engine
  • Joules's apparatus
  • Faraday's lines of force
  • Maxwell's electromagnetic waves
  • Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect
  • Brownian motion
  • Rutherford's gold foil experiment
  • Bohr's hydrogen atom
  • X-rays and crystals
  • General relativity
  • Compton scattering
  • Matter waves
  • The expanding universe (1927-29)
  • The neutrino and conservation of energy
  • Discovering the neutron
  • Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
  • Global greenhouse effect
  • Higgs boson (2012).

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