This book is both a high-level popularization and a critical appraisal of the methods scientists use to investigate the physical world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Prefaces Part I. The Method of Physics: 1. Introduction 2. What is physics? 3. A first approach to the method 4. The value of the method 5. The operational definition 6. The language of physics 7. Observables or theoretical constructs? 8. How many physical quantities are there? 9. The precision of measurements 10. The limits of the validity of a physical law 11. The procedure of classical physics 12. The mathematical functions used in physics 13. The units of measurements 14. The dimensions of physical quantities 15. Theories, hypotheses, models Part II. The Physics of the Reversible: 1. The divisions of classical physics 2. Velocity and acceleration 3. Curvilinear motion 4. The laws of dynamics 5. Work and energy 6. The invariants 7. Action at a distance 8. Do magnetic charges exist? 9. The field concept 10. Electromagnetism 11. Maxwell's equations 12. The electromagnetics waves 13. The polarization of material media 14. Reflection, refraction, dispersion 15. Lenses and images 16. The physical theory of vision 17. How do we really see? 18. Interference and diffraction 19. The Galilean relativity 20. Einstein's relativity 21. The Lorentz transformation 22. Length contraction and time dilation 23. The limiting velocity, the past and the future 24. The invariance of the laws of physics 25. Gravitation 26. General relativity 27. Consequences of general relativity 28. Physical theories 29. The richness of the man-nature relation Part III. The Physics of the Irreversable: 1. Reversability and irreversability 2. Temperature and heat 3. Perfect gases 4. Heat, work, and internal energy 5. Specifics of a heat gas 6. The second law of thermo dynamics 7. The entropy 8. The nonlinear development of classical thermodynamics 9. The kinetic theory 10. Probability 11. Information 12. Information and probability 13. The transmission of informations 14. Microstates and macrostates 15. Statistical irreversability 16. Does time have an arrow 17. Fluctuations Part IV. Microphysics: 1. The objects of physics 2. Spectral lines 3. Electrons 4. Classical models of the atom 5. Planck's quanta 6. Photons 7. The Bose-Einstein statistics 8. Bohr's atom 9. Waves and particles 10. The probabalistic interpretation 11. Spin, atoms and molecules 12. Bosons, fermions, antimatter 13. The uncertainty principle 14. The Hilbert space 15. The formalism of quantum mechanics 16. Revision of the general scheme of physics 17. Difficulties of quantum mechanics 18. Microphysics and reality 19. Determinism and indeterminism 20. Causality 21. The inductive inference 22. Quantum electrodynamics 23. The atomic nucleus 24. The second crisis of classical physics 25. Particles multiply 26. Interactions and conservations 27. Toward the grand unification 28. Materialism and mechanism in contemporary physics Part V. The Universe: 1. General laws and historical facts 2. Form and movements of the earth 3. The earth's structure 4. The cosmogonic problem 5. The environment and the biosphere 6. The origin and evolution of life 7. Windows on the universe 8. The solar system 9. The origin of the solar system 10. The stars 11. Neutron stars, pulsars, blackholes 12. The galaxies 13. Cosmological hypotheses 14. Life in the universe Notes References Indices.
Prefaces Part I. The Method of Physics: 1. Introduction 2. What is physics? 3. A first approach to the method 4. The value of the method 5. The operational definition 6. The language of physics 7. Observables or theoretical constructs? 8. How many physical quantities are there? 9. The precision of measurements 10. The limits of the validity of a physical law 11. The procedure of classical physics 12. The mathematical functions used in physics 13. The units of measurements 14. The dimensions of physical quantities 15. Theories, hypotheses, models Part II. The Physics of the Reversible: 1. The divisions of classical physics 2. Velocity and acceleration 3. Curvilinear motion 4. The laws of dynamics 5. Work and energy 6. The invariants 7. Action at a distance 8. Do magnetic charges exist? 9. The field concept 10. Electromagnetism 11. Maxwell's equations 12. The electromagnetics waves 13. The polarization of material media 14. Reflection, refraction, dispersion 15. Lenses and images 16. The physical theory of vision 17. How do we really see? 18. Interference and diffraction 19. The Galilean relativity 20. Einstein's relativity 21. The Lorentz transformation 22. Length contraction and time dilation 23. The limiting velocity, the past and the future 24. The invariance of the laws of physics 25. Gravitation 26. General relativity 27. Consequences of general relativity 28. Physical theories 29. The richness of the man-nature relation Part III. The Physics of the Irreversable: 1. Reversability and irreversability 2. Temperature and heat 3. Perfect gases 4. Heat, work, and internal energy 5. Specifics of a heat gas 6. The second law of thermo dynamics 7. The entropy 8. The nonlinear development of classical thermodynamics 9. The kinetic theory 10. Probability 11. Information 12. Information and probability 13. The transmission of informations 14. Microstates and macrostates 15. Statistical irreversability 16. Does time have an arrow 17. Fluctuations Part IV. Microphysics: 1. The objects of physics 2. Spectral lines 3. Electrons 4. Classical models of the atom 5. Planck's quanta 6. Photons 7. The Bose-Einstein statistics 8. Bohr's atom 9. Waves and particles 10. The probabalistic interpretation 11. Spin, atoms and molecules 12. Bosons, fermions, antimatter 13. The uncertainty principle 14. The Hilbert space 15. The formalism of quantum mechanics 16. Revision of the general scheme of physics 17. Difficulties of quantum mechanics 18. Microphysics and reality 19. Determinism and indeterminism 20. Causality 21. The inductive inference 22. Quantum electrodynamics 23. The atomic nucleus 24. The second crisis of classical physics 25. Particles multiply 26. Interactions and conservations 27. Toward the grand unification 28. Materialism and mechanism in contemporary physics Part V. The Universe: 1. General laws and historical facts 2. Form and movements of the earth 3. The earth's structure 4. The cosmogonic problem 5. The environment and the biosphere 6. The origin and evolution of life 7. Windows on the universe 8. The solar system 9. The origin of the solar system 10. The stars 11. Neutron stars, pulsars, blackholes 12. The galaxies 13. Cosmological hypotheses 14. Life in the universe Notes References Indices.
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