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Delaware Seminar in the Foundations of Physics

Mario Bunge (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 194 Seiten

2012 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1967
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-86104-8 (ISBN)

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This volume collects the lectures on the foundations of physics given by eleven scientists at the University of Delaware. It is neither an anthology of disconnected items nor a smoothly running textbook but rather a progress report on a neglected yet vital area of basic physical research, namely foundations research. The investigation into the foundations of any branch of science is neither loose speculation nor popular science: it is an aspect of scientific research - in fact the deepest-searching part of basic research. Con sequently it must be carried out by the scientist himself. Thus whether the time concept is a numerical variable or a function, whether particle mechanics is the primary mechanical theory or a particular case of continuum mechanics, whether transformation formulas are laws of nature or links between equivalent descriptions, whether thermodynamics has been fully reduced to statistical mechanics, whether the field concept is dispensable, whether the covariance principle is a law or a regulative principle, whether quantum mechanics is completely detached from classical physics or contains fragments of it, whether it has annihilated the physical object or given a more complex picture of it, and to which extent are the field variables measurable - all these are technical questions demanding a careful analysis of pieces of recent basic research. Yet all of these problems and indeed all questions in foundational research are philosophical as well as scientific.

1 Foundations Research in Physics.- 2 The Structure and Content of a Physical Theory.- 3 Space-Time Structures in Classical Mechanics.- 4 Foundations of Continuum Mechanics.- 5 Levels of Description in Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics.- 6 Foundations of Probability Theory and Statistical Mechanics.- 7 General Covariance in Electromagnetism.- 8 Foundation Problems in General Relativity.- 9 Relations of Quantum to Classical Physics.- 10 Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics.- 11 Scope and Limits of Axiomatics.- Biographical Notes on the Contributors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2012
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Foundations, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
Zusatzinfo	XII, 194 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	326 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Continuum Mechanics • Dynamics • Mechanics • Physics • quantum mechanics • Science • Statistical Mechanics • thermodynamics
ISBN-10	3-642-86104-0 / 3642861040
ISBN-13	978-3-642-86104-8 / 9783642861048
Zustand	Neuware