Forces in physics : a historical perspective /
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Greenwood guides to great ideas in science.
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Table of Contents:
- Force in the ancient and classical world
- Medieval ideas of force
- The new physics
- From the heavens to the Earth
- Forces and fields
- Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
- Fields as everything
- The relativity of motion
- Quantum mechanics
- Some mathematical ideas
- Timeline.