Physics for the Inquiring Mind: The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science

Rogers, Eric M.

ISBN 10: 0196901839 / ISBN 13: 9780196901831

Published by Princeton University Press, 1960

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Physics for the Inquiring Mind: The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0196901839
• ISBN 13: 9780196901831
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of physics so that they can enjoy those contacts with science and scientists that are part of our civilization both materially and intellectually. They need knowledge and understanding instead of the feelings, all too common, that physics is dark and mysterious and that physicists are a strange people with incomprehensible interests. Such a sense of understanding science and scientists can be gained neither from sermons on the beauty of science nor from the rigorous courses that colleges have offered for generations; when the headache clears away it leaves little but a confused sense of mystery. Nor is the need met by survey courses that offer a smorgasbord of tidbit--they give science a bad name as a compendium of information or formulas. Physics for the Inquiring Mind is a book for the inquiring mind of students in college and for other readers who want to grow in scientific wisdom, who want to know what physics really is.