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Concepts of modern physics : the Haifa lectures / Mendel Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Mendel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--History--20th century.
- Physics.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Quantum theory.
- Relativity (Physics).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 129 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Haifa lectures
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore : Distributed by World Scientific, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Highlighting foundational issues in theoretical physics, this work expresses the flow of ideas in physics - from the period of Galileo and Newton to the contemporary ideas of the quantum and relativity theories, astrophysics and cosmology - as explanations for the laws of matter.
- Contents:
- Philosophy of Science; Classical Precursors for the Concepts of Modern Physics; Nineteenth-Century Physics: Atomism and Continuity; Early Anomalies and Elementary Particles; From the Old Quantum Theory to Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Mechanics: Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics and the Copenhagen School; Concepts of the Theory of Relativity; From Special to General Relativity; The Universe; Conflicts in the Foundations of the Quantum and Relativity Theories.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611867614
- 9781281867612
- 1281867616
- 9781860948398
- 1860948391
- OCLC:
- 815742114
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