02631nam 2200649Ia 450 991045862270332120200520144314.01-281-86761-697866118676141-86094-839-1(CKB)1000000000404006(StDuBDS)AH24683025(SSID)ssj0000128202(PQKBManifestationID)11137101(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128202(PQKBWorkID)10064459(PQKB)11254098(MiAaPQ)EBC1681450(WSP)0000P510(Au-PeEL)EBL1681450(CaPaEBR)ebr10255612(CaONFJC)MIL186761(OCoLC)815742114(EXLCZ)99100000000040400620080121d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrConcepts of modern physics[electronic resource] the Haifa lectures /Mendel SachsLondon Imperial College Press ;Singapore Distributed by World Scientific2007xiv, 129 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-86094-822-7 1-86094-821-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-122) and index.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.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.PhysicsHistory20th centuryPhysicsPhilosophyQuantum theoryRelativity (Physics)Electronic books.PhysicsHistoryPhysicsPhilosophy.Quantum theory.Relativity (Physics)539Sachs Mendel50332MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458622703321Concepts of modern physics2110840UNINA