Rise of the New Physics
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Published: June 1951
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 982
ISBN-13: 9780486200040
Subjects: General; PHYSICS; Science: General Issues; Science
Description: Written for intelligent readers not familiar with higher mathematics, it is the only thorough explanation in non-technical language of modern mathematical-physical theory. Combining both history and exposition, it ranges from classical Newtonian concepts up through the electronic theories of Dirac and Heisenberg, the statistical mechanics of Fermi, and Einstein's relativity theories.