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Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World
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Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World Paperback - 2012

by Krieger, Martin H

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  • Title Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World
  • Author Krieger, Martin H
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press (Ips)
  • Publication date 2012-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18917683
  • ISBN 9780253006073 / 0253006074
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Physicists, Ethnology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012020453
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.092
  • Quantity available 5

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Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship--who can marry whom is like what can interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations in terms of interdependent particles and fields is analogous to the design of a factory with its division of labor among specialists. For the new edition, Krieger has revised the text and added a chapter on the role of mathematics and formal models in physics. Doing Physics will be of special interest to economists, political theorists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as philosophers of science.

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About the author

Martin H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.

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