The Physicist's World : The Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grissom, Thomas
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Physics.
Physique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Physics > Popular works.
Popular works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ancient quarrel
  • Motion
  • To be or not-to-be
  • Atoms and the void
  • Motion constrained
  • How versus why
  • Enter Newton
  • The laws of motion
  • Action at a distance
  • Matter and light
  • Heat and the arrow of time
  • Who's really moving and what's the correct time?
  • Curved space and the new gravity
  • What you see is what you get
  • A footnote on quantum gravity
  • Equations that go berserk
  • The physicist's world.

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