The story of physics / Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Hane Weaver.
Traces the development of physics from 2000 years ago to the experimental theories of the 20th century.
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Plenum Press,
[1989]
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Table of Contents:
- Greek physics
- Greek astronomy
- Pre-Galilean science
- The physics of Galileo
- Newton and his physics: The nature of theory
- Newton's law of gravity and his contemporaries
- The post-Newtonian era: Dynamic conservation principles
- The post-Newtonian era: minimal principles and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
- The growth of optics, electricity, and magnetism
- The Faraday-Maxwell era
- The broadest laws of physics: Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics
- Origin of the quantum theory
- Planck's black-body radiation formula and Einstein's photon
- Experimental physics at the close of the nineteenth century
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Atomic theory: The Bohr atom
- Quantum mechanics
- Nuclear physics
- Particle physics
- Cosmology.