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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Philosophy of Science | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Philosophy of Science | p. 3 |
Truth | p. 4 |
Significant Questions in Science | p. 7 |
Classical Precursors for the Concepts of Modern Physics | p. 9 |
Galileo Galilei | p. 9 |
The Thought Experiment | p. 9 |
Galileo's Principle of Inertia | p. 9 |
Laws of Motion in Two- and Three-Dimensional Space | p. 11 |
Galileo's Principle of Relativity | p. 11 |
Threads of Truth - Astronomy | p. 12 |
Rene Descartes | p. 13 |
Baruch Spinoza | p. 14 |
Isaac Newton | p. 15 |
Newton's Three Laws of Motion | p. 16 |
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation | p. 16 |
Newton's Concepts | p. 18 |
Newton's Optics | p. 19 |
Nineteenth Century Physics: Atomism and Continuity | p. 21 |
The Ideal Gas Law | p. 22 |
Heat and the Conservation of Energy | p. 24 |
The Laws of Thermodynamics and Atomism | p. 25 |
Ludwig Boltzmann's and Ernst Mach's Philosophy of Science | p. 27 |
Agreements between Boltzmann and Mach and 'Mach's Principle' | p. 28 |
The Continuous Field Concept | p. 29 |
Early Anomalies and Elementary Particles | p. 34 |
The Perihelion Precession of Mercury's Orbit | p. 34 |
The Michelson-Morley Experiment | p. 35 |
Blackbody Radiation and the Photon | p. 37 |
The Electron | p. 39 |
The Quantization of Electrical Charge | p. 40 |
The Photoelectric Effect | p. 41 |
The Compton Effect | p. 41 |
Radioactivity | p. 42 |
Rutherford and Atomic Structure | p. 43 |
Bohr's Atomic Model | p. 43 |
From the Old Quantum Theory to Quantum Mechanics | p. 46 |
Bohr's Atom and Energy Levels | p. 46 |
Electron Diffraction and Wave-Particle Dualism | p. 48 |
Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics | p. 49 |
Schrodinger's Interpretation of Wave Mechanics | p. 50 |
The Young Double Slit Experiment | p. 52 |
Einstein's Objection to Born's Interpretation of Linear Superposition | p. 54 |
Schrodinger's Cat Paradox | p. 55 |
Quantum Mechanics: Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics and the Copenhagen School | p. 57 |
Heisenberg's Philosophy | p. 57 |
Matrix Mechanics | p. 58 |
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | p. 60 |
The Subjectivity of Matter in the Copenhagen View | p. 61 |
The Principle of Complementarity | p. 62 |
Einstein's Photon Box Thought Experiment | p. 63 |
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Thought Experiment | p. 64 |
Hidden Variables | p. 66 |
Concepts of the Theory of Relativity | p. 68 |
The Principle of Relativity | p. 68 |
Einstein's Discovery of the Theory of Relativity | p. 70 |
The Spacetime Metric in Special Relativity | p. 72 |
The Light Cone | p. 73 |
Lorentz Transformations | p. 73 |
Relative Simultaneity | p. 74 |
Time Contraction and the Twin Paradox | p. 75 |
The Fitzgerald-Lorentz Contraction | p. 77 |
The Transformations of Velocities in Relativity Theory | p. 77 |
From Special to General Relativity | p. 79 |
The Paradoxes of Time Travel | p. 79 |
The Energy-Mass Relation E = mc2 in Special Relativity | p. 81 |
The Meaning of E = mc2 | p. 84 |
The Theory of General Relativity | p. 84 |
The Metric of a Curved Spacetime | p. 85 |
The Principle of Equivalence | p. 86 |
The Tests of General Relativity | p. 88 |
A Unified Field Theory | p. 90 |
The Universe | p. 93 |
Astrophysics | p. 93 |
Black Holes | p. 93 |
Pulsars | p. 95 |
Dark Matter | p. 96 |
Cosmology: The Physics of the Universe | p. 97 |
The Early Friedman Model | p. 100 |
The Hubble Law | p. 101 |
The Beginning of the Universe | p. 101 |
Olbers' Paradox | p. 101 |
A Spiral Universe | p. 103 |
The Separation of Matter and Antimatter in the Universe | p. 104 |
Conflicts in the Foundations of the Quantum and Relativity Theories | p. 106 |
The Principle of Complementarity versus the Principle of Relativity | p. 107 |
Atomism Versus Continuity | p. 108 |
On Epistemology - Logical Positivism Versus Abstract Realism | p. 109 |
Subjectivity Versus Objectivity | p. 110 |
On Quantum Electrodynamics | p. 113 |
Indeterminism Versus Determinism | p. 114 |
References and Notes | p. 116 |
Index | p. 123 |
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