Overview: Offers a novel historical approach to the core subjects encountered in physics at the undergraduate level.Provides physics students with a grounding in the history and conceptual development of the su.From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics. offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics. The book presents physics as it evolved
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