On Meaningful Scientific Laws

by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Christopher Doble

Book Overview

The authors describe systematic methods for uncovering scientific laws a priori, on the basis of intuition, or "Gedanken Experiments". Mathematical expressions of scientific laws are, by convention, constrained by the rule that their form must be invariant with changes of the units of their variables. This constraint makes it possible to narrow down the possible forms of the laws. It is closely related to, but different from, dimensional analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662516381
• ISBN13: 9783662516386
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"