| Description |
xx, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
What's the matter? draws readers into the ongoing inquiry about the natural world, providing an overview of how physics has developed through the centuries, in the words of the scientists who made the great discoveries. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Using What's the Mater? -- About shared inquiry discussion -- Readings and questions -- Richard Feynman -- The uncertainty of science -- Aristotle -- The science of nature -- Moving things -- Galileo -- Falling bodies and projectiles -- Isaac Newton -- Forces -- Laws of motion -- Time, space, and motion -- Rules of doing philosophy -- Isaac Newton/Thomas Young -- On light -- Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson) -- Heat and friction -- James Prescott Joule -- The mechanical equivalent of heat -- Arthur Eddington -- Entropy : the running-down of the universe -- Michael Faraday -- Induction of electric currents -- On the physical lines of magnetic force -- James Clerk Maxwell -- The science of electromagnetism -- Electricity and electromotive force -- A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. |
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Max Planck -- Extending the theories of physics -- Albert Einstein -- The special theory of relativity -- The theory of relativity -- Albert Einstein -- E = mc² -- George Gamow -- Quantum uncertainty -- Richard Feynman -- Quantum behavior -- Werner Heisenberg -- The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory -- John Polkinghorne -- Quantum perplexity and debate -- Steven Weinberg -- The origin of the universe -- Steven Weinberg -- Beautiful theories : symmetry and mathematics -- Gordon Kane -- Why physics is the easiest science : effective theories -- Alan Lightman -- Metaphor in science -- Stephen Hawking -- Black holes and predictable worlds -- Albert Einstein -- The scientist's responsibilities -- Thematic guide -- Notes on key terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments. |
| Subject |
Physics -- History.
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Physicists -- History.
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Physics -- Study and teaching.
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Inquiry-based learning.
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Inquiry-based learning. (OCoLC)fst01199976
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Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
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Physics. (OCoLC)fst01063025
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Physics -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01063108
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Whitfield, Donald.
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Hicks, James L., 1943-
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| ISBN |
1880323915 (alk. paper) |
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9781880323915 (alk. paper) |
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