Quips, Quotes and Quanta
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Quips, Quotes and Quanta

An Anecdotal History of Physics

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Quips, Quotes and Quanta

An Anecdotal History of Physics

About this book

This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics.

This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts. Academics and anyone interested in science in the most general sense are likely to want to read this book.

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Yes, you can access Quips, Quotes and Quanta by Anton Z Capri in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Science History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
WSPC
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9789813107021

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 Thermodynamics: Founders and Flounderers
  4. 2 Cracks Appear in Classical Physics
  5. 3 It's About Time and Space
  6. 4 Space Becomes Curved
  7. 5 Kilns and Quanta
  8. 6 The Hydrogen Atom: Plum-pudding or Planet
  9. 7 Action in Physics: The Old Quantum Theory
  10. 8 Particles are Waves are Particles
  11. 9 Schr odinger Makes Waves
  12. 10 Boys' Physics and Quantum Jumping
  13. 11 Matrix Mechanics is Born
  14. 12 The Purest Soul's Beautiful Quantum Mechanics
  15. 13 Quantum Mechanics is Complete
  16. 14 The Electron Spins
  17. Index