Research Catalog
Revolutions in physics
- Title
- Revolutions in physics / Barry M. Casper and Richard J. Noer.
- Author
- Casper, Barry M.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 1972.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Noer, Richard J., 1937-
- Description
- x, 479 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 467-472.
- Contents
- Introduction. The "scientific method"? -- The problem of celestial motion. The heavens around man ; Stars that wander ; The earth becomes a planet -- The problem of terrestrial motion. A language of motion ; The fall of Aristotle ; Free fall on a moving earth -- The Newtonian synthesis. The creation of force ; A matter of some gravity ; Newton's legacy ; It all depends on your frame of reference -- The theory of relativity. The elusive ether ; The overthrow of absolute time ; The logic of a relativistic world ; Does the earth really move? -- Epilogue. Elementary particles: a revolution in progress?
- ISBN
- 039309992X
- 9780393099928
- LCCN
- 75162931
- OCLC
- ocm00217051
- 217051
- SCSB-8790456
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library