Quantum generations
Problems in quantum mechanics (edited by: b t geilikman) (edición en inglés)
- ISBN: 9780691095523
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Problems and solutions on quantum mechanics (edición en inglés)
At the end of the nineteenth century some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details They could hardly have been more wrong The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics relativity cosmology particle physics and solidstate physics among other fields These subjects have fundamentally changed our understanding of space time and matter They have also transformed daily life inspiring a technological revolution that has included the development of radio television lasers nuclear power and computers In Quantum Generations Helge Kragh one of the worlds leading historians of physics presents a sweeping account of these extraordinary achievements of the past one hundred years The first comprehensive onevolume history of twentiethcentury physics the book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s Unlike most previous histories of physics written either from a scientific perspective or from a social and institutional perspective Quantum Generations combines both approaches Kragh writes about pure science with the expertise of a trained physicist while keeping the content accessible to nonspecialists and paying careful attention to practical uses of science ranging from compact disks to bombs As a historian Kragh skillfully outlines the social and economic contexts that have shaped the field in the twentieth century He writes for example about the impact of the two world wars the fate of physics under Hitler Mussolini and Stalin the role of military research the emerging leadership of the United States and the backlash against science that began in the 1960s He also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein Planck and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries Combining a mastery of detail with a sure sense of the broad contou
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