Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world /
Krieger, Martin H.,
Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world / Martin H. Krieger. - 2nd ed. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012] - 1 online resource (xxvi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) 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.
Doing Physics 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 i.
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Physicists.
Physics--Methodology.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Physiciens.
Physique--Méthodologie.
Physique--Philosophie.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Ethnologie.
physicists.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
SCIENCE--Energy.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
SCIENCE--Essays.
Ethnology.
Physicists.
Physics--Methodology.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
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Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world / Martin H. Krieger. - 2nd ed. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012] - 1 online resource (xxvi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) 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.
Doing Physics 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 i.
9780253006080 (electronic bk.) 0253006082 (electronic bk.)
394231 MIL 22573/ctt16gkv85 JSTOR 0CAAC62B-2C8E-4D5D-AB1A-DA6B32FD4670 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Physicists.
Physics--Methodology.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Physiciens.
Physique--Méthodologie.
Physique--Philosophie.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Ethnologie.
physicists.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
SCIENCE--Energy.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
SCIENCE--Essays.
Ethnology.
Physicists.
Physics--Methodology.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QC29 / .K75 2012eb
530.092/2