The Evolution of Physics
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1938
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 300 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Evolution of PhysicsSimon and Schuster, 1967The Touchstone paperback of the original text, written in English by Einstein and Infeld.
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A history of physical ideas for the general reader, written with Leopold Infeld and using no mathematics. It follows the rise of the mechanical view from Galileo and Newton, its decline as the field concept emerged from the work of Faraday and Maxwell, the puzzles about light and ether that led to relativity, and the strange evidence that forced the quantum theory. The authors present physics as a detective story in which each solved case raises a harder one.
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