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The ideas of physics / Ernest H. Hutten.

By: Hutten, Ernest H. (Ernest Hirschlaff), 1908-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contemporary science paperbacks (Edinburgh, Scotland) ; 6.Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1967Description: vii, 153 p. : tables, diagrs. ; 19 cm.Subject(s): Physics -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 539.7
Contents:
Experimentation and mathematisation -- Particle and wave: the two basic concepts -- Forces and fields, space and time -- The model in physics. Abstraction, generalisation and idealisation -- System and process -- The frontiers of physics -- General summary: the evolution of physics - science as creative activity.

Includes index.

Experimentation and mathematisation -- Particle and wave: the two basic concepts -- Forces and fields, space and time -- The model in physics. Abstraction, generalisation and idealisation -- System and process -- The frontiers of physics -- General summary: the evolution of physics - science as creative activity.