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Title

Physics, the human adventure : from Copernicus to Einstein and beyond / Gerald Holton and Stephen G. Brush.

Author

Holton, Gerald James.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press , c2001.

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Brush, Stephen G.

Description

xv, 582 p. : ill., port., tab.; 26 cm.

Summary

Of Some Trigonometric Relations -- Vector Algebra.

Subject

Physical sciences

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Introduction to concepts and theories in physical science. 1952.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-558) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. The astronomy of ancient Greece -- ch. 2. Copernicus' heliocentric theory -- ch. 3 On the nature of scientific theory -- ch. 4. Kepler's laws -- ch. 5. Galileo and the new astronomy -- ch. 6. Mathematics and the description of motion -- ch. 7. Galileo and the kinematics of free fall -- ch. 8. Projectile motion -- ch. 9. Newton's laws of motion -- ch. 10. Rotational motion -- ch. 11. Newton's law of universal gravitation -- ch. 12. On the nature of concepts -- ch. 13. On the duality and growth of science -- ch. 14. On the discovery of laws -- ch. 15. The law of conservation of mass -- ch. 16. The law of conservation of momentum -- ch. 17. The law of conservation of energy -- ch. 18. The law of dissipation of energy -- ch. 19. Origins of the atomic theory in physics and chemistry -- 20. The atomic theory of chemistry -- ch. 21. The periodic table of elements -- ch. 22. The kinetic-molecular theory of gases -- ch. 23. The wave theory of light -- ch. 24. Electrostatics -- ch. 25. Electromagnetism, x-rays, and electrons -- ch. 26. The quantum theory of light -- ch. 27. Radioactivity and the nuclear atom -- ch. 28. Bohr's model of the atom -- ch. 30. Einstein's theory of relativity -- ch. 31. The origin of the solar system and the expanding universe -- ch. 32. Construction of the elements and the universe -- ch. 33. Thematic elements and styles in science.

ISBN

• 0813529077 (alk. paper)
• 0813529085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

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