Modern Physics for Engineers Lecture slides 01b – The background to modern physics
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This lecture part summarizes the background to modern physics. It starts with early ideas of matter, through the development of the scientific method and its consequences for understanding of matter, and continues with the development of laws of motion. It then introduces the development of physical concepts of light and electromagnetism through to Maxwell's equations. Finally, it summarizes the history of the understanding of heat and thermodynamics, up to the ideas of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy. (slides)
Source: Stanford Digital Repository
DOI: 10.25740/vb612ph6646
Author: Miller, David
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6965102791
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