Helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. This book concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with an emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. It enables readers to learn about modern physics without the mathematical details.
Helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. This book concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the...
This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics. This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the...
This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major to...
This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics. This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the...
This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major to...
