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UNINA9910458622703321 |
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Autore |
Sachs Mendel |
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Titolo |
Concepts of modern physics [[electronic resource] ] : the Haifa lectures / / Mendel Sachs |
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London, : Imperial College Press |
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Singapore, : Distributed by World Scientific, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-86761-6 |
9786611867614 |
1-86094-839-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physics - History - 20th century |
Physics - Philosophy |
Quantum theory |
Relativity (Physics) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-122) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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