The Beauty of Physics
Patterns, Principles, and Perspectives
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is a book about ideas, patterns, and broad unifying themes in physics. Each chapter focuses on a different theme - such as dimensions, transformations, symmetries, and maps - beginning with simple examples accessible to all, then connecting them to...
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This is a book about ideas, patterns, and broad unifying themes in physics. Each chapter focuses on a different theme - such as dimensions, transformations, symmetries, and maps - beginning with simple examples accessible to all, then connecting them to more sophisticated realizations in more advanced topics of physics.
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The beauty of physics lies in its coherence in terms of a few fundamental concepts and principles. Even physicists have occasion to marvel at the overarching reach of basic principles and their ability to account for features stretching from the microscopic sub-atomic world to the cosmological expanses of the Universe. While mathematics is its natural language, physics is mostly about patterns, connections, and relations between objects and phenomena, and it is this aspect that is emphasized in this book.Since science tries to connect phenomena that at first sight appear widely different, while boiling them down to a small set of essential principles and laws, metaphor and analogy pervade our subject. Consider the pendulum, its swing from one extreme to the other often invoked in social or economic contexts. In molecular vibrations, such as in the CO2 molecule, the quantum motions of electrons and nuclei are metaphorically the pendulums. In electromagnetic radiation, including the visible light we observe, there are not even any concrete material particles, only electric and magnetic fields executing simple harmonic motion. But, to a physicist, they are all "just a pendulum".
The selection of topics reflects the author's own four-decade career in research physics and his resultant perspective on the subject. While aimed primarily at physicists, including junior students, this book also addresses other readers who are willing to think with symbols and simple algebra in understanding the physical world around us. Each chapter, on themes such as dimensions, transformations, symmetries, or maps, begins with simple examples accessible to all while connecting them later to more sophisticated realizations in more advanced topics of physics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Beauty of Physics “
- 1: Adding a dimension
- 2: Physics as transformations
- 3: Localization at saddles
- 4: Coins, classical and quantum
- 5: Symmetry
- 6: Maps
- 7: The problem of time
- 8: Complexity and emergence
Autoren-Porträt von A. R. P. Rau
A.R.P. Rau is a theoretical physicist who has worked primarily in atomic physics and quantum information. He has spent time in universities and research institutions in Australia, Chile, France, Germany, and India.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: A. R. P. Rau
- 2014, 240 Seiten, 68 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,9 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198709919
- ISBN-13: 9780198709916
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
...Rau's impressive poise in style and tone, ensure that The Beauty of Physics is not only accessible, but of rewarding interest and relevance to the broad audience which he seeks to address ... a lucid and at times reverberant reminder of the essential elegance of his subject. Robert Thomas , The Oxonian Review
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