| Titre : |
Theoretical Concepts in Physics : An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Malcolm S. Longair, Auteur |
| Importance : |
XVI-620 P. |
| Présentation : |
Relié, couv. ill. en coul. : fig., graph. |
| Format : |
25 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-108-48453-4 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
80.00 Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology
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| Mots-clés : |
Gravitation astrophysics Intergalactic matter General relativity |
| Index. décimale : |
80.00 |
| Résumé : |
1. Introduction. - Case Study I. The Origins of Newton's Laws of Motion and of Gravity: - 2. From Ptolemy to Kepler: the Copernican Revolution. - 3. Galileo and the nature of the physical sciences. - 4. Newton and the law of gravity. Case Study II. Maxwell's Equations:. - 5. The origin of Maxwell's equations. - 6. Maxwell (1865): A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. - 7. How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism. - Case Study III. Mechanics and Dynamics: Linear and Non-Linear. - 8. Approaches to mechanics and dynamics. - 9. The motion of fluids10. Dimensional analysis, chaos and self-organised criticality. - Case Study IV. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics:. - 11. Basic thermodynamics. - 12. Kinetic theory and the origin of statistical mechanics. - Case Study V. The Origins of the Concepts of Quantisation and Quanta:. - 13. Black-body radiation up to 1895. - 14. 1895–1900: Planck and the spectrum of black-body radiation. - 15. Planck's theory of black-body radiation. - 16. Einstein and the quantisation of light. - 17. The triumph of the light quantum hypothesis. - Case Study VI. Special and General Relativity:. - 18. Special relativity: a study in invariance. - 19. An introduction to general relativity. - Case Study VII. Cosmology and Physics:. - 20. Cosmology. - 21. Dark matter, dark energy and the inflationary paradigm |
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