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Quips, Quotes and Quanta
An Anecdotal History of Physics
Anton Z Capri
- 252 pages
- English
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Quips, Quotes and Quanta
An Anecdotal History of Physics
Anton Z Capri
Ă propos de ce livre
When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy.
When a young boy tried to visualize what a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time.
When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930.
Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called “modern physics” is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents.
This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photographs as well as additional quotes and anecdotes.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chapter 1 Prologue
- Chapter 2 Thermodynamics: Founders and Flounderers
- Chapter 3 Cracks Appear in Classical Physics
- Chapter 4 Itâs About Time and Space
- Chapter 5 Space Becomes Curved
- Chapter 6 Kilns and Quanta
- Chapter 7 The Hydrogen Atom: Plum-pudding or Planet
- Chapter 8 Action in Physics: The Old Quantum Theory
- Chapter 9 Particles are Waves are Particles
- Chapter 10 Schrödinger Makes Waves
- Chapter 11 Boysâ Physics and Quantum Jumping
- Chapter 12 Matrix Mechanics is Born
- Chapter 13 The Purest Soulâs Beautiful Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 14 Quantum Mechanics is Complete
- Chapter 15 The Electron Spins
- Chapter 16 Epilogue
- Chapter 17 Glossary and Timeline
- Index