Book ID: CBB000201565

Contemporary Physics and the Limits of Knowledge (2002)

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Tavel, Morton (Author)


Rutgers University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xi + 258 pp., illus., index
Language: English

Description On six topics in contemporary physics: symmetry, special and general relativity, statistical physics, quantum mechanics, and chaos.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Polak, Paweł
Josh Hunt
Rogers, David M.
D'Agostino, Salvo
Malloy, Vanja V.
Stachel, John J.
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
Relativity, general
Relativity, special
Relativity
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
United States
Poland
Europe
Institutions
Princeton University
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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