Discovering the Natural Laws: The Experimental Basis of Physics

by Milton Rothman

Book Overview

Accessible, mind-stretching introduction to theories, experiments underlying classical laws of motion and gravitation, conservation of energy, electrodynamics, relativity, other important concepts.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486261786
• ISBN13: 9780486261782
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A look at the deepest level of Physics

It is amazing how a book written in such simple style, with almost no equations, can give such a deep insight about Physics. Instead of starting from some well established equations and move on to their applications, like almost every other book of Physics, Rothman starts by describing some basic observations and experiments and proceeds to deduce the basic laws of nature. This book teaches us how we know what we know. I would strongly recommend it to every student of Physics, and everyone interested in natural Philosophy.