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028636 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20210921174930.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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020613s2003 enka b 001 0 eng |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
052152878X (pbk.) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780521528788: |
Terms of availability |
£24.95 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0521821266 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
EYE |
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
530.1 |
Item number |
LON |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Longair, M. S., |
Dates associated with a name |
1941- |
9 (RLIN) |
41225 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Theoretical concepts in physics : |
Remainder of title |
an alternative view of theoretical reasoning in physics / |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
2nd ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Cambridge, U.K. ; |
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New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Cambridge University Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2003. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xvii, 569 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill. ; |
Dimensions |
25 cm. |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Source |
rdacarrier |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
The Origins of Newton's Law of Gravitation -- From Ptolemy to Kepler - the Copernican revolution -- Galileo and the nature of the physical sciences -- Newton and the law of gravity -- Maxwell's Equations -- The origin of Maxwell's equations -- How to rewrite the history of electromagnetism -- Mechanics and Dynamics - Linear and Non-linear -- Approaches to mechanics and dynamics -- Dimensional analysis, chaos and self-organised criticality -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics -- Basic thermodynamics -- Kinetic theory and the origin of statistical mechanics -- The Origins of the Concept of Quanta -- Black-body radiation up to 1895 -- 1895-1900: Planck and the spectrum of black-body radiation -- Planck's theory of black-body radiation -- Einstein and the quantisation of light -- The triumph of the quantum hypothesis -- Special Relativity -- Special relativity - a study of invariance -- General Relativity and Cosmology -- An introduction to general relativity -- The technology of cosmology -- Cosmology. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
A novel and integrated approach to physics, covering background history, basic tools and modern techniques, this book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mathematical physics. |
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4338 |
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