Views of a physicist : selected papers of N.G. van Kampen /
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| Author / Creator: | Kampen, N. G. van. |
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| Uniform title: | Selections |
| Imprint: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2000. |
| Description: | x, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4545919 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prologue
- Chapter I. Philosophy of Physics
- 1. Physics, Is it a Science?
- 2. What is Science?
- 3. Determinism and Predictability
- 4. The Theory of Everything
- 5. Misconceptions about Physics
- 6. Questions without Answers
- 7. The Retreat of Rationality
- Chapter II. Statistical Mechanics
- 1. Irreversibility
- 2. Probability in Theoretical Physics
- 3. Entropy
- 4. Probability and Noise in Physics
- 5. The Fokker-Planck Equation
- 6. Introduction to Chaos Theory
- 7. From Statistical Mechanics to Quantum Theory
- 8. How do Stochastic Processes enter into Physics?
- Chapter III. Quantum Mechanics
- 1. Are the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Problematical?
- 2. Ten Theorems about Quantum Mechanical Measurements
- 3. Postmodern Obscurantism
- 4. Quantum Chaos
- 5. Against Bell
- Chapter IV. Atavisms
- 1. Review of a book by Louis de Broglie
- 2. A Redundant Theory
- 3. Chance is not Accidental
- 4. The Danger of Popularization
- Chapter V. Great Physicists
- 1. Copernicus
- 2. The Legacy of Smoluchowski and Einstein in Statistical Physics
- 3. Dresden's Life of Kramers
- 4. Remembering Kramers
- 5. H.A. Kramers: 1894-1952
- 6. Kramers and the Problem of Escape over a Barrier
- 7. Historiography and the Work of H.A. Kramers
- 8. Einstein's Early Years
- 9. L.C.P. Van Hove
- 10. E.P. Wigner
- Chapter VI. Miscellaneous
- 1. Space Travel and Physics
- 2. Physics in the Twentieth Century
- 3. Memorable Events in History
- 4. The Danger of Science Management
- 5. Bibliometry--Is it a Science?
- 6. Bizarre Science
- 7. Physics and the Paranormal
- Index
