From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics

by Antonis Modinos

The Language of Physics.- The Dawn of Science.- Astronomy Paves the Way.- His Life and Work.- The 17th 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 Notes on Mathematics.- Appendix Physical Constants.

Genres: Physics

532 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2013

Reviews

[Pero Krivić · Rating 3 out of 5]

Profound overview of the developement of the physical thoughts thoughout the cenuries. The author nicely lays some details from famous phyicists' lives, their discoveries, their experiments and that's where the charm of the book is. But Modinos also tries to give a lectures on physics in a manner of classroom texbooks what is not very fortunate, for he lack both space and depth. While the introduction to QM or relativity were worth reading and easy to understand, chapters on solid-state physics or thermodynamics were completely futile.

[Mills College Library]

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