Physical Science Foundations
Author: J. Ward Moody
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Published: 2020-08
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781611650433
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Author: J. Ward Moody
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Published: 2020-08
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781611650433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Brading
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-21
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 0429787197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe centerpiece of Émilie Du Châtelet’s philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics, including such pressing issues of the time as whether there are atoms, the appropriate roles of God and of hypotheses in scientific theorizing, how (if at all) bodies are capable of acting on one another, and whether gravity is an action-at-a-distance force. Du Châtelet sought to resolve these issues within a single philosophical framework that builds on her critique and appraisal of all the leading alternatives (Cartesian, Newtonian, Leibnizian, and so forth) of the period. The text is remarkable for being the first to attempt such a synthetic project, and even more so for the accessibility and clarity of the writing. This book argues that Du Châtelet put her finger on the central problems that lay at the intersection of physics and metaphysics at the time, and tackled them drawing on the most up-to-date resources available. It will be a useful source for students and scholars interested in the history and philosophy of science, and in the impact of women philosophers in the early modern period.
Author: Mario Bunge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-13
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 3642492878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is not an introduction to physics but an analysis of its founda tions. Indeed, the aims of this book are: (1) to analyze the form and content of some of the key ideas of physics; (2) to formulate several basic physical theories in an explicit and orderly (i. e. , axiomatic) fashion; (3) to exhibit their presuppositions and discuss some of their philosoph ical implications; (4) to discuss some of the controversial issues, and (5) to debunk certain dusty philosophical tenets that obscure the under standing of physics and hinder its progress. To the extent to which these goals are attained, the volume can serve as a companion to studies in theoretical physics aiming at deepening the understanding of the logical structure and the physical meaning of our science. In order to keep the book slender, whole fields of basic physical research had to be excluded - chiefly many-body physics, quantum field theories, and elementary particle theories. A large coverage was believed to be less important than a comparatively detailed analysis and reconstruction of three representative monuments: classical mechan ics, general relativity, and quantum mechanics, as well as their usually unrecognized presuppositions. The reader is invited to join the project and supply some of the many missing chapters - or to rewrite the present ones entirely.
Author: Steve Adams
Publisher: Mercury Learning and Information
Published: 2023-03-30
Total Pages: 994
ISBN-13: 1683929683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated edition is designed as a self-teaching, calculus-based introduction to the concepts of physics. Numerous examples, applications, and figures provide readers with simple explanations. Standard topics include vectors, conservation of energy, Newton’s Laws, momentum, motion, gravity, relativity, waves, fluid mechanics, circuits, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and more. FEATURES: Designed as a calculus-based, introduction to the key concepts of physics Practical techniques, including the collection, presentation, analysis and evaluation of data, are discussed in the context of key experiments linked to the theoretical spine of the work
Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 370
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 652
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Maudlin
Publisher:
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0198701306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTim Maudlin sets out a completely new method for describing the geometrical structure of spaces, and thus a better mathematical tool for describing and understanding space-time. He presents a historical review of the development of geometry and topology, and then his original Theory of Linear Structures.
Author: Deborah A. Wuest
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Bunge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-08
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 3642806244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of technical papers in the foundations and the philoso It takes both "foundations" phy of physics with emphasis on the former. and "philosophy" in their narrow technical senses but it construes "physics" lato sensu, as including all the sciences of nonliving systems. All eleven papers constituting this volume were written for it. The problems tackled in this book concern certain basic concepts, hypotheses, theories, and research programmes in physical science. Some of these problems are topical, others new, but they are all fundamental and the subject of research and controversy. Consequently this volume is expected to serve those students, teachers and researchers who enjoy learning, teaching, discussing or doing theoretical physics. It is addressed to the nine to niners rather than to the nine to fivers. It is expected to attract the theoretician in search for new basic ideas, the teacher eager to perfect his understanding of physical theory and transmit his own zeal and his own doubts, as well as the student anxious to get down to essentials. This book may also interest the mathematician for whom physics offers a challenge (or a good pretext). Finally, it should get the attention of the philosopher of science aware of the advantages of philosophizing on foundations research problems rather than on the popularization of some results of research. There are at least two reasons for valuing foundations research.
Author: Tom Hsu
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Published: 2014-11-01
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ISBN-13: 9781937827106
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