Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics

✍ Scribed by Mary B. Hesse

Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 1961
Tongue: English
Leaves: 158
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This history of physics focuses on the question, "How do bodies act on one another across space?" The variety of answers illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Forces and Fields presents an in-depth look at the science of ancient Greece, and it examines the influence of antique philosophy on seventeenth-century thought. Additional topics embrace many elements of modern physics--the empirical basis of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, and the action-at-a-distance theory of Wheeler and Feynman. 1961 ed.

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