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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458622703321

Autore

Sachs Mendel

Titolo

Concepts of modern physics [[electronic resource] ] : the Haifa lectures / / Mendel Sachs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press

Singapore, : Distributed by World Scientific, 2007

ISBN

1-281-86761-6

9786611867614

1-86094-839-1

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 129 p

Disciplina

539

Soggetti

Physics - History - 20th century

Physics - Philosophy

Quantum theory

Relativity (Physics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-122) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.