An edition of The physical world (2017)

The physical world

an inspirational tour of fundamental physics

First edition.

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An edition of The physical world (2017)

The physical world

an inspirational tour of fundamental physics

First edition.

"The book offers a grand vision of the essential unity of physics that will enable the reader to see the world through the eyes of a physicist and ultimately to think like a physicist. The text follows Einstein's dictum that 'explanations should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler', to give an honest account of how modern physicists understand their subject, including the shortcomings of current theory. The result is an up-to-date and engaging portrait of physics that contains concise derivations of the important results in a style where every step in a derivation is clearly explained, so that anyone with the appropriate mathematical skills will find the text easy to digest. The book concentrates on the conceptual principles of each branch of physics and shows how they fit together to form a coherent whole. Emphasis is placed on the use of variational principles in physics, and in particular the principle of least action, an approach that lies at the heart of modern theoretical physics, but has been neglected in most introductory accounts of the subject"--

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English
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556

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The physical world: an inspirational tour of fundamental physics
2017, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Fundamental ideas
Motions of bodies : Newton's laws
Fields : Maxwell's equations
Special relativity
Curved space
General relativity
Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics in three dimensions
Atoms, molecules and solids
Thermodynamics
Nuclear physics
Particle physics
Stars
Cosmology
Frontiers of physics.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2017

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530
Library of Congress
QC21.3 .M36 2017, QC21.3

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 556 pages
Number of pages
556

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Open Library
OL26946349M
Internet Archive
physicalworldins0000mant
ISBN 10
0198795939, 0198796110
ISBN 13
9780198795933, 9780198796114
LCCN
2017934959
OCLC/WorldCat
965461385

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