Drawing Physics 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs / Don S. Lemons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemons, Don S. (Don Stephen), 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--History--Pictorial works.

Physics.

Physics--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The subject of "Seeing Physics" is our understanding of the physical universe as organized into 51 one thousand-word essays each anchored in a drawing that conveys a key idea. Each essay expands on the science of the drawing and places it in a broader human context. Many people have an interest in the latest in science and technology. But many, even among this group, do not understand basic principles from the 2600-year old intellectual tradition of physics. The old ideas are still new to those who don't understand them. Some of the classic discoveries and theories Lemons discusses include Archimedes' Principle, Alhazen's early theory on the optics of vision and refracted rays, Oresme's Triangle, how Copernicus was able to discover heliocentricism, and Rontgen's accidental discovery of X-rays"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE)

Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE)

Phases of the moon (448 BCE)

Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE)

Aristotle's universe (350 BCE)

Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE)

Archimedes' balance (250 BCE)

Archimedes' principle (250 BCE)

The size of the earth (225 BCE)

Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE)

The optics of vision (1020 CE)

Oresme's triangle

Leonardo and earthshine

Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos

The impossibility of perpetual motion

Snell's law

The mountains on the moon

The moons of Jupiter

Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Galileo on free fall

Galileo on projectile motion

Scaling and similitude

The weight of air

Boyle's law

Newton's theory of color

Free-body diagrams

Newton's cradle

Newtonian trajectories

Huygens' principle

Bernoulli's principle

Electrostatics

Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit

Oersted's demonstration

Carnot's simplest heat engine

Joules's apparatus

Faraday's lines of force

Maxwell's electromagnetic waves

Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect

Brownian motion

Rutherford's gold foil experiment

Bohr's hydrogen atom

X-rays and crystals

General relativity

Compton scattering

Matter waves

The expanding universe (1927-29)

The neutrino and conservation of energy

Discovering the neutron

Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion

Global greenhouse effect

Higgs boson (2012).

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-53519-X

0-262-33873-4

OCLC:

971891362