Seeking ultimates : an intuitive guide to physics / Peter T. Landsberg.
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ΚείμενοΛεπτομέρειες δημοσίευσης: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., �2000.Περιγραφή: 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrationsΤύπος περιεχομένου: - text
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- online resource
- 0585249164
- 9780585249162
- 9781420046953
- 1420046950
- 9780750306560
- 0750306564
- 9780750306577
- 0750306572
- 530 21
- QC23 .L324 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-293) and indexes.
1. What this book is about -- 2. There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Count Rumford -- 3. Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Dmitri Mendeleev -- 4. Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / Ludwig Boltzmann -- 5. How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Charles Darwin -- 6. Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / Max Planck -- 7. The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Albert Einstein -- 8. Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / Arthur Eddington -- 9. The last question. Does God exist? / Blaise Pascal.
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