Physics in the Nineteenth Century

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  • Physics in the Nineteenth Century Book Detail

  • Author : Robert D. Purrington
  • Release Date : 1997
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Genre : Medical
  • Pages : 276
  • ISBN 13 : 9780813524429
  • File Size : 60,60 MB

Physics in the Nineteenth Century by Robert D. Purrington PDF Summary

Book Description: Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth. Robert D. Purrington is a professor of physics at Tulane University and coauthor of Frame of the Universe.

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