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Physics in the nineteenth century

By Robert D. Purrington

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers
Year
1997
ISBN
9780813524429, 0813524423
LCC
QC7 .P84 1997
Open Library ID
OL1009116M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
2 MB (1739664 bytes)
Pages
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Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth. Robert D. Purrington is a professor of physics at Tulane University and coauthor of Frame of the Universe.

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