Robert K Logan

The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry

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This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader.
Contents:The Origins of PhysicsPhysics of the Ancient Greek EraPoetry Influenced by the Scientific RevolutionThe Concept of EnergyThermodynamics and the Atomic and Molecular Structure of MatterThe General Theory of RelativityThe Structure of the AtomWave MechanicsQuantum ElectrodynamicsElementary Particles, Quarks and Quantum ChromodynamicsCosmology and the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Matter and Dark Energyand other papersReadership: High school students, undergraduates and general readers.
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527 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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    Thus, they were able to preserve the most basic aspect of a scientific theory, namely its ability to make predictions, which can, in turn, be verified by experiment
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    In order for the information to be useful, we would like to be certain that the act of making one’s measurement on the system does not alter it to the extent that we are no longer dealing with the same system
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    The uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to make an exact determination of both the momentum and position of a particle no matter how accurately they are measured

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