Student's Guide to Natural Science

Name: Student's Guide to Natural Science
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ISBN: 9781932236927

ISBN-10: 1932236929

ISBN-13: 9781932236927

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen M. Barr

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Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid "Student's Guide to Natural Science" aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr begins with the contributions of the ancient Greeks, in particular the two great ideas that reality can be understood by the systematic use of reason and that phenomena have natural explanations. He goes on to discuss, among other things, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role played by religion in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major breakthroughs of modern physics,…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 90
Size: 5.13" wide x 8.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286



Introduction


The Birth of Science


The Second Birth of Science


Science, Religion, and Aristotle


The Scientific Revolution


The Scientific Method


From Copernicus to Newton


Mathematics in a New Role


Newtonian Physics


Forces and Fields


The Twentieth-Century Revolutions in Physics


The Theory of Relativity


How "Revolutionary" Was Relativity?


The Quantum Revolution


The Role of Symmetry


"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics"


Notes


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