From Aristotle to Schrödinger The Curiosity of Physics /

• Main Author: Modinos, Antonis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Quantum physics.; Mechanics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.; Quantum Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics,...

Table of Contents:

• The Language of Physics
• The Dawn of Science
• Astronomy Paves the Way
• Galileo: His Life and Work
• The 17th Century: The Bloom of Science
• Isaac Newton
• Classical Mechanics
• The Beginnings of Chemistry
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• Electromagnetism
• Cathode Rays and X-Rays
• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Atoms, Molecules and Solids
• The Very Small and The Very Large
• Appendix A: Notes on Mathematics
• Appendix B: Physical Constants.