A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume III: Electricity, Magnetism and Light / / by Kerry Kuehn
| A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume III: Electricity, Magnetism and Light / / by Kerry Kuehn |
| Autore | Kuehn Kerry |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVI, 471 p. 176 illus., 5 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 530 |
| Collana | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics
Philosophy and science Lasers Photonics Atoms History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy of Science Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics |
| ISBN | 3-319-21816-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | From the Contents: Iron, Loadstones and Terrestrial Magnetism -- The Life and Death of a Magnet -- Conservation of Electrical Charge -- Muschenbroek's Wonderful Bottle -- Thunder and Lightning -- Coulomb's Law -- The Dawn of Electro-Magnetism -- Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces -- Work and Weight -- Kinetic and Potential Energy -- Conservation of Energy. |
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume IV: Heat, Atoms and Quanta / / by Kerry Kuehn
| A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume IV: Heat, Atoms and Quanta / / by Kerry Kuehn |
| Autore | Kuehn Kerry |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVI, 463 p. 70 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 530 |
| Collana | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics
Philosophy and science Science - Study and teaching Cosmology History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy of Science Science Education |
| ISBN | 3-319-21828-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A New Science of Heat -- Heat, Symmetry and Mathematics -- Steam Engines and Heat Flow -- Carnot's Cycle -- Engines are Thermometers -- Temperature, Pressure and Reversibility -- The Language of Science -- Energy and Entropy -- Conduction of Heat -- On Radiation -- Atomism and Kinetic Theory -- Atomism and Kinetic Theory 2 -- Dynamical and Statistical Laws -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Mass and Velocity of a-particles -- Identifying the a Particle -- Targeting the Nucleus -- Nuclear Structure -- The Discovery of the Neutron -- The Nature of the Neutron -- Corpuscles of Light -- X-Ray Optics 1 -- X-Ray Optics 2 -- Electron diffraction 1 -- Electron diffraction 2 -- The Bohr model of the atom -- Atomic spectra -- The periodic table -- The Birth of the Quantum -- Matter Waves -- Quantum Orthodoxy -- Causality and Chance in Quantum Theory -- Indeterminacy -- Bohm's critique of Copenhagen. |
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume II: Space, Time and Motion / / by Kerry Kuehn
| A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume II: Space, Time and Motion / / by Kerry Kuehn |
| Autore | Kuehn Kerry |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVI, 380 p. 79 illus., 1 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 523.01 |
| Collana | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics
Philosophy and science Science - Study and teaching Cosmology History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy of Science Science Education |
| ISBN | 1-4939-1366-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Scaling in Art and Nature -- The Coherence of Substances -- Archimedes' Principle and Falling Bodies -- Falling Bodies and Pendular Motion -- Pendular Motion and Harmony -- The Law of the Lever -- Beams, Bones and Giants -- Naturally Accelerated Motion -- The Mean Speed Theorem -- Equilibrium, Force and Acceleration -- From Conic Sections to Projectile Motion -- The Speed and Force of a Projectile -- Reason, Authority and Science -- Pascal's Principle -- Submerged Bodies -- Syringes, Siphons and Suckling Infants -- Life Under a Sea of Air -- Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? -- Mass, Momentum and Force -- Absolute and Relative Motion -- Newton's Laws of Motion -- Conservation of Momentum -- The Third Law and the Power of Machines -- Centripetal Force and Acceleration -- Newton's Rules of Reasoning -- Planetary Motion -- Universal Gravitation -- Hypothesis and Natural Theology -- The Principle of Relativity -- The Absolute Speed of Light -- Lorentz Transformations -- Relativistic Energy and Minkowski Space. |
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth / / by Kerry Kuehn
| A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts : Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth / / by Kerry Kuehn |
| Autore | Kuehn Kerry |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVII, 396 p. 79 illus., 11 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 530.01 |
| Collana | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics
Philosophy and science Science - Study and teaching Cosmology History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy of Science Science Education |
| ISBN | 1-4939-1360-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Nature, Number and Substance -- The Shape and Motion of the Heavens -- Harmony and Complexity -- Earth at the Center of the World -- The World of Ptolemy -- Measuring the Tropical Year -- Geometrical Tools -- The Sun, the Moon and the Calendar -- From Astronomy to Cartography -- Climates and Continents -- Heliocentrism: Hypothesis or Truth? -- Earth as a Wandering Star -- Re-ordering the Heavenly Spheres -- Celestial Physics -- Broken Spheres -- Kepler's Third Law -- Kepler's First and Second Laws -- Mountains on the Moon -- The Medician Stars -- The Luminosity of Variable Stars -- Galactic Spectra -- Measuring Astronomical Distances -- A New Theory of Gravity -- Euclid, Gauss and Mercury's Orbit -- A Finite Universe with No Boundary -- The Structure of the Universe -- Measuring the Potentially Infinite -- The Birth of the Big Bang -- The Primeval Atom. |
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