Physics Essays

Author : Geoffrey Brooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198857242

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Essays in Physics by Geoffrey Brooker Pdf

Each of this book's 32 essays discusses a chosen topic, at a level that is generally within that of a four-year degree course in Physics. The essays supplement (indeed sometimes correct) treatments usually given, or supplies reasoning that tends to fall through the cracks. The author uses his life long experience of tutorial teaching at Oxford to know what topics often need such discussion, for clarification, or for avoidance of common confusions. The book contains accounts of even-standard topics, accounts that offer an unusual emphasis, or a fresh insight, or more than customary rigour, or a cross-link to apparently unrelated material. The student (and their teachers) who really wants to understand physics will find this book indispensable. Often the outcome of tutorial discussion has been an understanding that lies a little to the side of what is presented in standard texts. Such understanding is presented here in the essays. The topics covered are diverse and have something useful to say across most areas of a physics degree.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190208318

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Basic Structures of Reality by Colin McGinn Pdf

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic fields, the character of physical knowledge, and consciousness and meaning. Throughout, McGinn maintains an historical perspective and seeks to determine how much we really know of the world described by physics. He defends a version of "structuralism": the thesis that our knowledge is partial and merely abstract, leaving a large epistemological gap at the center of physics. McGinn then connects this element of mystery to parallel mysteries in relation to the mind. Consciousness emerges as just one more mystery of physics. A theory of matter and space is developed, according to which the impenetrability of matter is explained as the deletion of volumes of space. McGinn proposes a philosophy of science that distinguishes physics from both psychology and biology, explores the ontology of energy, and considers the relevance of physics to seemingly remote fields such as the theory of meaning. In the form of a series of aphorisms, the author presents a metaphysical system that takes laws of nature as fundamental. With its broad scope and deep study of the fundamental questions at the heart of philosophy of physics, this book is not intended primarily for specialists, but for the general philosophical reader interested in how physics and philosophy intersect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Physics
ISBN : CHI:61573068

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Physics Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0262230569

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Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays by Victor Frederick Weisskopf Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Brooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192599346

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Essays in Physics by Geoffrey Brooker Pdf

Each of this book's 32 essays discusses a chosen topic, at a level that is generally within that of a four-year degree course in Physics. The essays supplement (indeed sometimes correct) treatments usually given, or supplies reasoning that tends to fall through the cracks. The author uses his life long experience of tutorial teaching at Oxford to know what topics often need such discussion, for clarification, or for avoidance of common confusions. The book contains accounts of even-standard topics, accounts that offer an unusual emphasis, or a fresh insight, or more than customary rigour, or a cross-link to apparently unrelated material. The student (and their teachers) who really wants to understand physics will find this book indispensable. Often the outcome of tutorial discussion has been an understanding that lies a little to the side of what is presented in standard texts. Such understanding is presented here in the essays. The topics covered are diverse and have something useful to say across most areas of a physics degree.

Author : Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810208545

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Essays on the Formal Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory by Akhlesh Lakhtakia Pdf

The book deals with formal aspects of electromagnetic theory from the classical, the semiclassical and the quantum viewpoints in essays written by internationally distinguished scholars from several countries. The fundamental basis of electromagnetic theory is examined in order to elucidate Maxwell's equations, identify problematic aspects as well as outstanding problems, suggest ways and means of overcoming the obstacles, and review existing literature.This book will be especially valuable for those who wish to go in depth, rather than simply use Maxwell's equations for the solution of engineering problems. Graduate students will find it rich in dissertation topics, and advanced researchers will relish the controversial and detailed arguments and models.

Author : Robert S. Cohen,R. Laudan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400970557

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Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Robert S. Cohen,R. Laudan Pdf

To celebrate Adolf Griinbaum's sixtieth birthday by offering him this bouquet of essays written for this purpose was the happy task of an autonomous Editorial Committee: Wesley C. Salmon, Nicholas Rescher, Larry Laudan, Carl G. Hempel, and Robert S. Cohen. To present the book within the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was altogether fitting and natural, for Griinbaum has' been friend and supporter of philosophy of science at Boston University for twenty-five years, and unofficial godfather to the Boston Colloquium. To regret that we could not include contributions from all his well-wishers, critical admirers and admiring critics, is only to regret that we did not have an encyclopedic space at the committee's disposal. But we, and all involved in this book, speak for all the others in the philo sophical, scientific, and personal worlds of Adolf Griinbaum in greeting him on May 15, 1983, with our wishes for his health, his scholarship, his happiness. Our gratitude is due to Carolyn Fawcett for her care and accuracy in editing this book, and for the preparation of the Index; and to Elizabeth McMunn for her help again and again, especially in preparation of the Bibliography of the Published Writings of Adolf Griinbaum; and to Thelma Griinbaum for encouraging, planning, and cheering. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science M.W.W.

Author : Salmeron R A,Nussenzveig H M,Macdowell S
Publisher : #N/A
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814556385

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Frontier Physics: Essays In Honor Of Jayme Tiomno by Salmeron R A,Nussenzveig H M,Macdowell S Pdf

This book collects 30 articles on elementary particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity and cosmology contributed by well known experts in honour of Prof. Jayme Tiomno's 70th Birthday. The contents of this volume reflect the wide-ranging scientific interests of one of the most respected physicists of our time.

Author : R. I. G. Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199654369

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The Theoretical Practices of Physics by R. I. G. Hughes Pdf

R.I.G Hughes offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of physics: instead of examining theories, he examines the theoretical practices which physicists use. He starts with a critical study of the accounts that physicists give of their practices, and asks: Given that these practices are successful, what is the nature of their success? Eight of the nine essays are illustrated by case studies of particular episodes in the history of physics. In three essays these case studies are strictly historical; the others deal with physics since 1900. Three essays deal with standard topics in the philosophical literature (laws, explanation, and realism), but are here considered from the perspective that an examination of theoretical practice affords. The five essays at the centre of the book all deal with different aspects of modelling in physics. Another examines the discourse of physics, in particular the languages in which physical narratives are told and experimental work is described. The final essay draws out the implications of the earlier essays for the thesis of scientific realism.

Author : V Burdyuzha,Grigory Khozin
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814522373

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The Future Of The Universe And The Future Of Our Civilization by V Burdyuzha,Grigory Khozin Pdf

The first of its kind, the Symposium on the Future of the Universe and the Future of our Civilization examined the current status and future evolution of the Universe, the Galaxy, the stars and the Sun. Among the major subjects of discussion were: (1) How was our Universe born? (2) How do the Sun and the stars evolve? (3) What is the destiny of the solar system and the Universe? (4) What are the origins and the future of the biosphere of the Earth? (5) What are the prospects of survival of human civilization?Special attention was devoted to analysis of humanitarian and philosophical problems of evolution of humankind on the planet Earth and in the Universe. Among them were methodological, economic, sociological and medical aspects of the progress of civilization. Scientists from different countries put forward some practical proposals, including those describing the possible ways out of the systemic crisis of our civilization.

Author : Stanley Jeffers,S. Roy,J.P. Vigier,G. Hunter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401156820

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The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light by Stanley Jeffers,S. Roy,J.P. Vigier,G. Hunter Pdf

THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT In August of 1995, a group of over 70 physicists met at York University for a three-day symposium in honour of Professor Jean-Pierre Vigier. The attendance included theoretical and experimental physicists, mathematicians, astronomers and colleagues concerned with issues in the philosophy of science. The symposium was entitled "The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light" in accordance with Professor Vigier's wishes but in fact encompassed many of the areas to which Professor Vigier has contributed over his long and distinguished career. These include stochastic interpretations of quantum mechanics, particle physics, and electromagnetic theory. The papers presented at the symposium have been arranged in this proceedings in the following approximate order: ideas about the nature of light and photons, electrodynamiCS, the formulation and interpretation of quantum mechanics, and aspects of relativity theory. Some of the papers presented deal with alternate interpretations of quantum phenomena in the tradition of Vigier, Bohm et al. These interpretations reject the account given in purely probabilistic terms and which deems individual quantum events to be acausal and not amenable to any analysis in space-time terms. As is well known, Einstein and others also rejected the purely statistical account of quantum mechanics. As stressed by Professor Vigier at the symposium, the current experimental situation now allows for the first time for individual quantum events to be studied, e. g.

Author : Riccardo Storti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244523787

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Quinta Essentia - Part 2,3,4 (6 x 9) by Riccardo Storti Pdf

Author : Riccardo Storti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781847533531

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Quinta Essentia - Part 3 (US Letter) by Riccardo Storti Pdf

Author : H. Margenau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400998452

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Physics and Philosophy by H. Margenau Pdf

This book is intended for people interested in physics and its philosophy. for those who regard physics as an essential component of modern culture rather than merely a tool for industry or war. Indeed this volume is addressed to those students, teachers and research workers who enjoy learning, teaching or doing physics, and are in the habit of pausing once in a while to ponder over key physical concepts and hypotheses and to wonder whether received theories are as perfect as textbooks would have us believe and, if not, how they might be improved. Henry Margenau, recently retired from Yale University as Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Philosophy, is the most important philosopher of physics of his generation, and indeed one of the most eminent philosophers of science of our century. He introduced and elucidated the notion of the correspondence rule. He claimed and showed, in the heyday of positivism, that physics has metaphysical presuppositions. He was the first to realize that quantum mechanics can do without von Neumann's projection postulat- and that was as far back as 1936. He clarified the physics and the philosophy of Pauli's exclusion principle at a time when it seemed mysterious. He was the first physicist to publish a philosophical paper in a physics journal, which he did as early as 1941. He was also one of the rare scientists who proclaimed the need for a scientific approach to value theory and ethics.

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198803478

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Physics Avoidance by Mark Wilson Pdf

Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout ways ; and philosophy must find better descriptive tools to reflect this.