Understanding Physics Today - Rilegato

Watson, W. H.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521067456 ISBN 13: 9780521067454

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1963

Riassunto

This 1963 text explores the philosophical confusion about our pictures of microphysical phenomena that the progression of physics exposes us to.

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Descrizione del libro

This 1963 text explores the philosophical confusion about our pictures of microphysical phenomena that the progression of physics exposes us to. Nearly half a century after the work's original publication, this paperback edition of Understanding Physics Today will provide readers with fresh opportunities to engage with this historically valuable text.

Contenuti

1. Philosophising about physics; 2. Imagining what is going on; 3. Our metaphysical dependence on language; 4. The interferometer and the counter; 5. Motion; 6. Atomic existence; 7. The continuum and the lattice; 8. Interference and atomic connexion; 9. The new aether; 10. Accounting operators; 9. Mathematical invention and physical reality; 12. A view of atomicity; Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1963
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521067456
• ISBN 13: 9780521067454
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 234
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; Francia