Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 218 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253006074
,
0253006082
,
1283629860
,
9780253006073
,
9780253006080
,
9781283629867
Inhalt:
Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship-who can marry whom is like what can interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations i
Inhalt:
The division of labor : the factory -- Taking apart and putting together : the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer -- Freedom and necessity : family and kinship -- The vacuum and the creation : setting a stage -- Handles, probes, and tools : a rhetoric of nature -- Production machinery : mathematics for analysis and description -- An epitome
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and index
Sprache:
Englisch
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