Overview
- Offers a novel historical approach to the core subjects encountered in physics at the undergraduate level
- Provides physics students with a grounding in the history and conceptual development of the subject
- Provides a useful supplement to standard texts on general physics
- Introduces the required mathematical concepts in an accessible way
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics. The book presents physics as it evolved historically; it covers in considerable depth the development of the subject from ancient Greece to the present day. Though the emphasis is on the observations, experiments, theories, and applications of physics, there are additionally short sections on the life and times of the main protagonists of physics.
This book grew out of the author's long experience in giving undergraduate and graduate courses in classical physics and in quantum mechanics and its elementary applications. Although meant primarily for the student and teacher of physics, it will be of interest to other scientists andto historians of science, and to those who wish to know something about physics, how it started, and how it developed to its present day magnificence and sophistication.
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“Intended for physics students (formal or informal) and for physics instructors at all levels, the book is a valuable supplement to standard textbooks since it focuses on key experiments, competing theories, and critical analysis that highlight how the core theories of physics have developed and changed over generations of reflective critiques. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty in physics; well-prepared general readers.” (J. R. Burciaga, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Aristotle to Schrödinger
Book Subtitle: The Curiosity of Physics
Authors: Antonis Modinos
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00750-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00749-6Published: 15 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00750-2Published: 04 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 517
Number of Illustrations: 182 b/w illustrations
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Science, Quantum Physics, Classical Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics