Böcker av Roger G. Newton

This text provides an account of how physicists view and understand the world that they study. Discussions cover topics from quarks and strings to chaos and indeterminacy, demonstrating how physicists formulate their questions about the world around us.

Bringing a reasonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around the notion of scientific truth, this book offers a clear and constructive response to those who contend, in parodies, polemics and op-ed pieces, that there really is no such thing as verifiable objective truth--and consequently no such thing as scientific authority.

Roger Newton, whose previous works have been widely praised for erudition and accessibility, presents a history of physics from the early beginning to our day-with the associated mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry. His work identifies what may well be the defining characteristic of physics in the 21st century.

Covers topics such as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. This book is intended for advanced undergraduate students, professors, and researchers.

Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks-contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation.