Author: Harry Fawcett BuckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A Short History of Physics in the American Century
Author: David C. CassidyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the physical advances underlying these applications are poorly understood and underappreciated by U.S. citizens. In this overview, Cassidy views physics through America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century.
The History of Physics
Author: J. L. HeilbronPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019968412X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Originally published in 2015 as: Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks.
A Cultural History of Physics
Author: Karoly SimonyiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865116
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture,
Physics
Author: J. L. HeilbronPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198746857
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.
A Short History of Physics
Author: Harry Fawcett BuckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A Brief History of Physics
Author: Edited by: KisakPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519198372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Physics is the fundamental branch of science that developed out of the study of nature and philosophy known, until around the end of the 19th century, as "natural philosophy." Today, physics is ultimately defined as the study of matter, energy and the relationships between them. Physics is, in some senses, the oldest and most basic pure science; its discoveries find applications throughout the natural sciences, since matter and energy are the basic constituents of the natural world. The other sciences are generally more limited in their scope and may be considered branches that have split off from physics to become sciences in their own right. Physics today may be divided loosely into classical physics and modern physics. Elements of what became physics were drawn primarily from the fields of astronomy, optics, and mechanics, which were methodologically united through the study of geometry. These mathematical disciplines began in antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and Ptolemy. Ancient philosophy, meanwhile - including what was called "physics" - focused on explaining nature through ideas such as Aristotle's four types of "cause."
A History of Physics over the Last Two Centuries
Author: Mario GliozziPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152758125X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The book tells the fascinating story of physics starting from the 19th century, from the wave theory of light, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, up to the discoveries of the 20th century. It investigates the frequently contrasting ideas and the raging arguments that led to our current understanding of the physical world, from the theory of relativity to quantum mechanics.
A Short History of Physics
Author: Harry Fawcett BuckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A short history of Physics
Author: H. BuckleyA Short History of Physics
Author: Harry Fawcett B 1893 BuckleyPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014775948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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