Abstract:Preface. 1. Introduction: The Importance of the Physicists' View of Nature for Everyone. Part One: The Development of Classical Physics. 2. The Beginnings of Classical Physics. 3. The Foundations of t...Preface. 1. Introduction: The Importance of the Physicists' View of Nature for Everyone. Part One: The Development of Classical Physics. 2. The Beginnings of Classical Physics. 3. The Foundations of the Newtonian Paradigm: the Laws of Motion. 4. The Denouement: the Universal Gravity Law. 5. Matter, Energy, Conservation Laws, and the Rise of Materialism. Part Two: From Being to Becoming. 6. Thermodynamics and Its Laws. 7. Progressivity and Energy Consumption. 8. Energy and Environment. 9. From Being to Becoming: Entropy, Life, and Chaos Theory. 10. Heat Death, Hangups, and the Question of Design. Part Three: Waves, Fields, and Einstein's Universe. 11. The Motion of Waves. 12. Wave Interactions. 13. Sound and Music and Light and Color. 14. Electricity, Magnetism, Fields, and Waves. 15. The Relativity of Time. 16. The Relativity of Space and Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. 17. The Universe. 18. The World View of Classical Physics: Where Do We Go From Here? Index.Read More
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Type: book
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