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
Rogers, David M.
D'Agostino, Salvo
Malloy, Vanja V.
Stachel, John J.
Saunders, Simon
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Philosophy of Science
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
World Scientific
University of Notre Dame
The MIT Press
Routledge
Princeton University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Relativity, general
Relativity, special
Philosophy of science
Relativity
People
Einstein, Albert
Zawirski, Zygmunt
Weber, Heinrich
Mach, Ernst
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
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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