The history of physics in small bites

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The history of physics in small bites is written by Francisco Chinesta and published by Editions Publibook. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2748356578 (ISBN 10) and 9782748356571 (ISBN 13).

How long did it take to prove. Aristotle's ideas about falling objects wrong ? How did science evolve from Democritus, the first philosopher to talk about the existence of atoms, to today's theories concerning the universe ? Can the world now be explained in the form of equations ? This volume - articulated in three parts: I. Classical Physics II. Modern Physics and III. Questions about the universe - answers all basic questions concerning the history of physics and physics. The approach chosen here is the one adopted by Franscico Chinesta for his Ecole Centrale de Nantes course. Although the content is targeted at top-level engineering students, this volume also addresses a non-scientific audience, giving everyone a chance to marvel at scientific research. Chinesta's chronological approach allows readers to understand how the world has gradually revealed its secrets through scientific observation, hypotheses, counterhypotheses and experimentation. Meanwhile a whole range of scientific phenomena is explained, tram why the sky is blue to what is a black hole. e simple language of the volume and titan . to hundreds of illustrations, physics to non the latest available to all.