Enjoy physics

Author: Wang Zeliang
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book combines scientific and humanistic spirit to introduce the history of physics and several major concepts of modern physics: entropy, relativity, quantum theory, cosmology, and chaos. It explains the relationship between physics and aesthetics in a popular manner, hoping to help readers appreciate the rational beauty of natural laws. Particularly, it explores the integration of the history of optics and the history of Western art, seeking their synchronized development. At the end, from the perspective of appreciating craftsmanship, it selects ten or so physical experiments (including thought experiments) and mathematical models, attempting to generalize and refine them into methods of thinking. This book is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate students, a reference book for teaching, and also as a popular science reading material for high-level works.