Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world / Martin H. Krieger.

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Krieger, Martin H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (xxvi, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780253006080
0253006082

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

530.092/2 23

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QC29 .K75 2012eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and index.

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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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