This original and integrated approach to theoretical reasoning in physics illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is aimed at advanced students with a firm grounding in physics, who wish to consolidate their understanding of how physics works in practice.
This original and integrated approach to theoretical reasoning in physics illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is aimed at advanced students with a firm grounding in physics, who wish to consolidate their understanding of how physics works in practice.
Malcolm Longair, CBE, FRS, FRSE, was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1980 to 1990 and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005. His books with Cambridge University Press include High Energy Astrophysics (2011), The Cosmic Century (2006), Quantum Concepts in Physics (2013), and Maxwell's Enduring Legacy (2016), a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction Case Study I. The Origins of Newton's Laws of Motion and of Gravity: 2. From Ptolemy to Kepler: the Copernican Revolution 3. Galileo and the nature of the physical sciences 4. Newton and the law of gravity Case Study II. Maxwell's Equations: 5. The origin of Maxwell's equations 6. Maxwell (1865): A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field 7. How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism Case Study III. Mechanics and Dynamics: Linear and Non-Linear 8. Approaches to mechanics and dynamics 9. The motion of fluids 10. Dimensional analysis, chaos and self-organised criticality Case Study IV. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics: 11. Basic thermodynamics 12. Kinetic theory and the origin of statistical mechanics Case Study V. The Origins of the Concepts of Quantisation and Quanta: 13. Black-body radiation up to 1895 14. 1895¿1900: Planck and the spectrum of black-body radiation 15. Planck's theory of black-body radiation 16. Einstein and the quantisation of light 17. The triumph of the light quantum hypothesis Case Study VI. Special and General Relativity: 18. Special relativity: a study in invariance 19. An introduction to general relativity Case Study VII. Cosmology and Physics: 20. Cosmology 21. Dark matter, dark energy and the inflationary paradigm Notes Author index Subject index.
Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction Case Study I. The Origins of Newton's Laws of Motion and of Gravity: 2. From Ptolemy to Kepler: the Copernican Revolution 3. Galileo and the nature of the physical sciences 4. Newton and the law of gravity Case Study II. Maxwell's Equations: 5. The origin of Maxwell's equations 6. Maxwell (1865): A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field 7. How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism Case Study III. Mechanics and Dynamics: Linear and Non-Linear 8. Approaches to mechanics and dynamics 9. The motion of fluids 10. Dimensional analysis, chaos and self-organised criticality Case Study IV. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics: 11. Basic thermodynamics 12. Kinetic theory and the origin of statistical mechanics Case Study V. The Origins of the Concepts of Quantisation and Quanta: 13. Black-body radiation up to 1895 14. 1895¿1900: Planck and the spectrum of black-body radiation 15. Planck's theory of black-body radiation 16. Einstein and the quantisation of light 17. The triumph of the light quantum hypothesis Case Study VI. Special and General Relativity: 18. Special relativity: a study in invariance 19. An introduction to general relativity Case Study VII. Cosmology and Physics: 20. Cosmology 21. Dark matter, dark energy and the inflationary paradigm Notes Author index Subject index.
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