Knowing : the nature of physical law /
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| Author / Creator: | Munowitz, M. (Michael) |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xiii, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5927077 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Great Expectations
- 2. Ties That Bind
- The Potential To Be Different
- Matter and Its Endowments
- Gravity and Mass
- Electric Charge and Potential
- The Potential To Make Cats and Dogs
- The Strong Nuclear Force
- The Weak Nuclear Force
- From the Bottom Up: Quarks
- Playing the Field
- 3. In the Eye of the Beholder
- A Place for Everything
- Lost in Space
- Which Way Is Up?
- The Clock Has Started
- Never at Rest
- Time, Space, and Motion
- Killing Time
- Relativity and Invariance
- 4. Three-Part Invention
- Getting Started
- Inertia: Nothing Doing
- Making Change
- Moving Along
- Newtonian Force: A Shock to the System
- Inertia and Mass
- Charting a Course
- Constancy and Change
- Conservation of Momentum
- Conservation of Energy
- Though the Heavens Fall
- 5. Mass as a Medium
- From Clocks and Rulers to E = mc[superscript 2]
- Getting Around in Three Dimensions
- Getting Ahead in Three Dimensions
- Four of a Kind: Space-Time
- Conservation of Momentum-Energy
- Energy and Mass
- Space-Time and Gravity
- The Principle of Equivalence
- Mass and the Curvature of Space-Time
- Getting Straight
- From Falling Apples to Black Holes
- 6. Taking Charge
- The Two Faces of Electric Charge
- Standing Still: The Electrostatic Interaction
- Magnetism: Poles Apart
- Magnetism and Electric Current
- A Stitch in Time: Electromagnetism
- Riding the Wave
- Blueprint for an Electromagnetic World
- Making Waves
- A Wave Is...
- ...What a Wave Does
- 7. Never Certain
- At the Barricades: Classical Light and Matter
- Particles: Shooting the Gap
- Waves: Slipping Through
- Waves of Grain
- Double Exposure
- The Photon: Energy and Momentum
- A Matter of Chance
- Which Way Did It Go?
- Out with the Old
- 8. The Path Not Taken
- States and Measurement
- Classical Quantization
- Quantum Waves and Probability
- A State of One's Own
- Superposition
- A New Mechanics
- Changing States
- Bridging Two Worlds
- Toward an Equation of Motion
- 9. Symmetry Perforce
- By Halves: Identical Particles
- In a Spin: Fermions, Bosons, and the Pauli Principle
- Material World
- Compelling Force: Local Symmetry and Global Interaction
- Leveling the Playing Field
- Going through a Phase
- The Medium and the Message
- Toward Unity
- 10. Ends and Odds
- Strategies for the Big, the Many, and the Simple
- Balancing Act
- The End of History
- Renaissance
- Fight to a Draw
- Energy, Entropy, and the Arrow of Time
- The First Law: Work and Heat
- The Second Law: Running Down
- Statistical Destiny
- 11. Surprise Endings
- Lost with a Map
- Strange Terrain
- Lawful Anarchy?
- A Numbers Game
- Chaos Unleashed
- Between Now and Forever
- 12. Loose Ends
- Reconcilable Differences?
- Once Upon a Time
- Expanding Horizons
- Witness to Creation
- The Big Bang in a Nutshell
- Ancient History: Broken Symmetry and Runaway Inflation
- Something in Nothing
- Half Empty, or Half Full?
- Symmetry Lost and Symmetry Found
- Spin of the Wheel: The Higgs Fields
- False Vacuum: Start of Something Big
- Forces of Darkness
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Higher Standards
- Under the Rug
- Supersymmetry
- The Vanishing Point
- Strings Attached
- By the Way
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
