Six Roads from Newton: Great Discoveries in Physics
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EDWARD SPEYER teaches physics at California State University, Fullerton. He has thirty years' experience as a research physicist in industrial laboratories and has served as chief investigator for the National Science Foundation.
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The Newtonian Universe.
Waves and Their Differences from Particles.
Fields: Space Is Not Empty.
Probability: What Does It Measure?
Special Relativity: Only One Velocity Is Absolute.
Quantum Theory: New Phenomena, New Principles.
General Relativity: Gravity as Field Distortions.
A Look Down Further Roads.
Neither Determinism Nor Indeterminism.
Road to the Stars.
Appendices.
Index.
Waves and Their Differences from Particles.
Fields: Space Is Not Empty.
Probability: What Does It Measure?
Special Relativity: Only One Velocity Is Absolute.
Quantum Theory: New Phenomena, New Principles.
General Relativity: Gravity as Field Distortions.
A Look Down Further Roads.
Neither Determinism Nor Indeterminism.
Road to the Stars.
Appendices.
Index.
