Seeking ultimates : an intuitive guide to physics /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol ; Philadelphia :
Institute of Physics Pub.,
�2000.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=27514 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. What this book is about
- 2. There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Count Rumford
- 3. Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Dmitri Mendeleev
- 4. Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / Ludwig Boltzmann
- 5. How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Charles Darwin
- 6. Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / Max Planck
- 7. The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Albert Einstein
- 8. Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / Arthur Eddington
- 9. The last question. Does God exist? / Blaise Pascal.
