History And Evolution Of Concepts In Physics

Author : Harry Varvoglis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319042923

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History and Evolution of Concepts in Physics by Harry Varvoglis Pdf

Our understanding of nature, and in particular of physics and the laws governing it, has changed radically since the days of the ancient Greek natural philosophers. This book explains how and why these changes occurred, through landmark experiments as well as theories that - for their time - were revolutionary. The presentation covers Mechanics, Optics, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Relativity Theory, Atomic Physics and Quantum Physics. The book places emphasis on ideas and on a qualitative presentation, rather than on mathematics and equations. Thus, although primarily addressed to those who are studying or have studied science, it can also be read by non-specialists. The author concludes with a discussion of the evolution and organization of universities, from ancient times until today, and of the organization and dissemination of knowledge through scientific publications and conferences.

Author : Einstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521083710

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The Evolution of Physics by Einstein Pdf

Author : Charis Anastopoulos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691135126

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Particle Or Wave by Charis Anastopoulos Pdf

'Particle or Wave' explains the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them.

Author : Max Jammer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486166476

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Concepts of Space by Max Jammer Pdf

Historical surveys consider Judeo-Christian notions of space, Newtonian absolute space, perceptions from 18th century to the present, more. Numerous quotations and references. "Admirably compact and swiftly paced style." — Philosophy of Science.

Author : Albert Einstein,Leopold Infeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780671201562

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Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein,Leopold Infeld Pdf

Clear and concise explanations of the development of theories explaining physical phenomena.

Author : Patricia Yunghanns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641116498

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A Brief History of Change by Patricia Yunghanns Pdf

Each day nature persists in its existence, it survives as flexible to present change and eventual changes. A Brief History of Change richly informs the reader regarding the historical evolution of concepts emanating from physics-based around matter and energy while framing the narrative in a thought-provoking professor to student email format. As you peruse the electronic messages, you will gain pertinent insight about matter and energy from history's greatest scientific minds.

Author : Max Jammer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486150567

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Concepts of Force by Max Jammer Pdf

This work by a noted physicist traces conceptual development from ancient to modern times. Kepler's initiation, Newton's definition, subsequent reinterpretation — contrasting concepts of Leibniz, Boscovich, Kant with those of Mach, Kirchhoff, Hertz. "An excellent presentation." — Science.

Author : Amitabha Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811062537

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Conceptual Evolution of Newtonian and Relativistic Mechanics by Amitabha Ghosh Pdf

This book provides an introduction to Newtonian and relativistic mechanics. Unlike other books on the topic, which generally take a 'top-down' approach, it follows a novel system to show how the concepts of the 'science of motion' evolved through a veritable jungle of intermediate ideas and concepts. Starting with Aristotelian philosophy, the text gradually unravels how the human mind slowly progressed towards the fundamental ideas of inertia physics. The concepts that now appear so obvious to even a high school student took great intellectuals more than a millennium to clarify. The book explores the evolution of these concepts through the history of science. After a comprehensive overview of the discovery of dynamics, it explores fundamental issues of the properties of space and time and their relation with the laws of motion. It also explores the concepts of spatio-temporal locality and fields, and offers a philosophical discussion of relative motion versus absolute motion, as well as the concept of an absolute space. Furthermore, it presents Galilean transformation and the principle of relativity, inadequacy of Galilean relativity and emergence of the spatial theory of relativity with an emphasis on physical understanding, as well as the debate over relative motion versus absolute motion and Mach's principle followed by the principle of equivalence. The natural follow-on to this section is the physical foundations of general theory of relativity. Lastly, the book ends with some new issues and possibilities regarding further modifications of the laws of motion leading to the solution of a number of fundamental issues closely connected with the characteristics of the cosmos. It is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of physics, engineering, mathematics, and related disciplines. It is also suitable for interdisciplinary coursework and introductory reading outside the classroom.

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192528506

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Galileo Unbound by David D. Nolte Pdf

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Author : Masud Chaichian,Hugo Perez Rojas,Anca Tureanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662623138

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Basic Concepts in Physics by Masud Chaichian,Hugo Perez Rojas,Anca Tureanu Pdf

This book is the second edition of an excellent undergraduate-level overview of classical and modern physics, intended for students of physics and related subjects, and also perfectly suited for the education of physics teachers. The twelve-chapter book begins with Newton’s laws of motion and subsequently covers topics such as thermodynamics and statistical physics, electrodynamics, special and general relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology , the standard model and quantum chromodynamics. The writing is lucid, and the theoretical discussions are easy to follow for anyone comfortable with standard mathematics. An important addition in this second edition is a set of exercises and problems, distributed throughout the book. Some of the problems aim to complement the text, others to provide readers with additional useful tools for tackling new or more advanced topics. Furthermore, new topics have been added in several chapters; for example, the discovery of extra-solar planets from the wobble of their mother stars, a discussion of the Landauer principle relating information erasure to an increase of entropy, quantum logic, first order quantum corrections to the ideal gas equation of state due to the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. Both gravitational lensing and the time-correction in geo-positioning satellites are explained as theoretical applications of special and general relativity. The discovery of gravitational waves, one of the most important achievements of physical sciences, is presented as well. Professional scientists, teachers, and researchers will also want to have this book on their bookshelves, as it provides an excellent refresher on a wide range of topics and serves as an ideal starting point for expanding one’s knowledge of new or unfamiliar fields. Readers of this book will not only learn much about physics, they will also learn to love it.

Author : Karoly Simonyi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439865118

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A Cultural History of Physics by Karoly Simonyi Pdf

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,

Author : Peter J. Beurton,Raphael Falk,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521771870

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The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution by Peter J. Beurton,Raphael Falk,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Pdf

Advances in molecular biological research in the latter half of the twentieth century have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of what a gene really is. Knowledge about the structure and functioning of genes abounds, but the gene has also become curiously intangible. This collection of essays renews the question: what are genes? Philosophers, historians and working scientists re-evaluate the question in this volume, treating the gene as a focal point of interdisciplinary and international research. It will be of interest to professionals and students in the philosophy and history of science, genetics and molecular biology.

Author : Charis Anastopoulos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691222493

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Particle or Wave by Charis Anastopoulos Pdf

Particle or Wave is the first popular-level book to explain the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them. The dichotomy between particle and wave reflects a dispute--whether the universe's most elementary building blocks are discrete or continuous in nature--originating in antiquity when philosophers first speculated about the makeup of the physical world. Charis Anastopoulos examines two of the earliest known theories about matter--the atomic theory, which attributed all physical phenomena to atoms and their motion in the void, and the theory of the elements, which described matter as consisting of the substances earth, air, fire, and water. He then leads readers up through the ages to the very frontiers of modern physics to reveal how these seemingly contradictory ideas still lie at the heart of today's continuing debates. Anastopoulos explores the revolutionary contributions of thinkers like Nicolas Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. He shows how Einstein's ideas about relativity unify opposing concepts by identifying matter with energy, and how quantum mechanics goes even further by postulating the coexistence of the particle and the wave descriptions. Anastopoulos surveys the latest advances in physics on the fundamental structure of matter, including the theories of quantum fields and elementary particles, and new cutting-edge ideas about the unification of all forces. This book reveals how the apparent contradictions of particle and wave reflect very different ways of understanding the physical world, and how they are pushing modern science to the threshold of new discoveries.

Author : T. K. Sarkar,Magdalena Salazar-Palma,Eric L. Mokole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470289235

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Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing by T. K. Sarkar,Magdalena Salazar-Palma,Eric L. Mokole Pdf

An analysis of the physics of multiantenna systems Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology is one of the current hot topics in emerging wireless technologies. This book fills the important need for an authoritative reference on the merits of MIMO systems based on physics and provides a sound theoretical basis for its practical implementation. The book also addresses the important issues related to broadband adaptive processing. Written by three internationally known researchers, Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing: Provides a thorough discussion of the physical and mathematical principles involved in MIMO and adaptive systems Examines the electromagnetic framework of wireless communications systems Uses Maxwell's theory to provide a system-based framework for the abstract concept of channel capacity Performs various numerical simulations to observe how a typical system will behave in practice Provides a mathematical formulation for broadband adaptive processing and direction-of-arrival estimation using real antenna arrays Integrates signal processing and electromagnetics to address the performance of realistic multiantenna systems With Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing, communication systems engineers, graduate students, researchers, and developers will gain a thorough, scientific understanding of this important new technology.

Author : Steven J. Dick,Mark L. Lupisella,National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780160897412

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Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context by Steven J. Dick,Mark L. Lupisella,National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price During the last 50 years, coincident with the Space Age, cosmic evolution has been recognized as the master narrative of the universe, history writ large. Cosmic evolution includes physical, biological, and cultural evolution, and of these the latter is by far the most rapid. In this volume, authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Might this lead to cultural evolution on a large enough scale to allow the universe to both create and steer itself toward its own destiny? Related products: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives; NASA 50 Anniversary Proceedings can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01336-1 Bringing the Future Within Reach: Celebrating 75 Years of the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center, 1941-2016 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01377-9 Other products produced by National Aerounautics and Space Administration (NASA) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/550