Buch, Englisch
Buch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-1-56396-314-8
Verlag: AIP Press
"Students will soon discover that many sections are excellent introductions to their subjects.I hope that it will be widely consulted by specialists who want to get an understanding of what happens in other areas.Philosophers, historians and all others interested in the development of the basic notions of physics will find much material here." Physics World Twentieth Century Physics is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in our century. Published jointly by the American Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (U.K.), this unparalleled three-volume work offers an engaging, scholarly overview of the evolution of modern physics. With its tremendous breadth and scope Twentieth Century Physics will have broad appeal both as enjoyable reading and as an essential scientific reference. The publication's scientifically literate readership includes practicing physicists and other scientists, science educators, historians, philosophers of science, and those with a non-professional interest in science.
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Volume 1: Physics in 1900 (B. Pippard) y Introducing the atom and their nuclei (A. Pais) y Quanta and quantum mechanics (H. Rechenberg) y History of Relativity (J. Stachel) y Nuclear forces, mesons and isospin symmetry (L. Brown) y Solid state structure analysis (W. Cochran) y Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics (C. Domb) y Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics or the vagaries of time evolution (M. Dresden) Volume 2: Elementary particle physics in the second half of the twentieth century (J. Rosner and V. Fitch) y Fluid Mechanics (J. Lighthill) y Superfluids and superconductors (A. J. Leggett) y Vibrations and spin waves in crystals (R. Cowley and B. Pippard) y Atomic and molecular physics (U. Fano) y Magnetism (K. Stevens) y Nuclear dynamics (D. Brink) y Units, standards and constants (A. Bailey) Volume 3: Electrons in solids (B. Pippard) y A history of optical and optoelectronic physics in the twentieth century (R. Pike and R. Brown) y Physics of materials (R. Cahn) y Electron- beam instruments (T. Mulvey) y Soft matter: Birth and growth of concepts (P.G. de Gennes) y Plasma physics in the twentieth century (R. Post) y Astrophysics and cosmology (M. Longair) y Computer-
