From Aristotle to Schrödinger The Curiosity of Physics /

From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics,...

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Main Author: Modinos, Antonis. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00750-2
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505 0 |a The Language of Physics -- The Dawn of Science -- Astronomy Paves the Way -- Galileo: His Life and Work -- The 17th Century: The Bloom of Science -- Isaac Newton -- Classical Mechanics -- The Beginnings of Chemistry -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics -- Electromagnetism -- Cathode Rays and X-Rays -- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity -- Quantum Mechanics -- Atoms, Molecules and Solids -- The Very Small and The Very Large -- Appendix A: Notes on Mathematics -- Appendix B: Physical Constants. 
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