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Doing physics :

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0253006082 (ebook)

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Doing physics :

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how physicists take hold of the world /

Martin H. Krieger

Second edition

xxvi, 218 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The division of labor : the factory -- Taking apart and putting together : the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer -- Freedom and necessity : family and kinship -- The vacuum and the creation : setting a stage -- Handles, probes, and tools : a rhetoric of nature -- Production machinery : mathematics for analysis and description -- An epitome

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This book makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship - who can marry whom is like what can interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations in terms of interdependent particles and fields is analogous to the design of a factory with its division of labour among specialists. For the new edition, Krieger has revised the text and added a chapter on the role of mathematics and formal models in physics

Ethnology

Physicists

Physics-- Methodology

Physics-- Philosophy

Science-- Social aspects

Krieger, Martin H.

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