The Resource Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world, Martin H. Krieger
Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world, Martin H. Krieger
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- Summary
- This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work--their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world--so that outsiders can understand it. Martin H. Krieger explains that physicists employ a small number of everyday notions to get at the world experimentally and conceptually. Krieger's stories focus on five of these models: the division of labor among particles, fields, and spacetime in the "factory" of Nature; the analysis of the world as a clockworks of comparatively dumb parts whose composition is often surprisingly complex and rich; the play of freedom and necessity given by a set of kinship rules that govern the families of particles; the setting of a simple stage, a vacuum, on which something arises out of nothing; and a mode of grasping the world with the handles, probes, and tools that make up a physicist's tool kit. In each case, Krieger shows that the deepest principles of physics are embodied in the physicist's craft and conventions
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 168 pages
- Contents
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- The division of labor: the factory
- Taking apart and putting together: the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer
- Freedom and necessity: family and kinship
- The vacuum and the creation: setting a stage
- Handles, probes, and tools: a rhetoric of nature
- Isbn
- 9780253331236
- Label
- Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world
- Title
- Doing physics
- Title remainder
- how physicists take hold of the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin H. Krieger
- Subject
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- Ethnology
- Ethnology
- Forschung
- Forschung
- Methode
- Physicists
- Physicists
- Physics -- Methodology
- Physics -- Methodology
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Berufsbild
- Physics | Methodology
- Physics | Philosophy
- Physik
- Physik
- Physiker
- Science -- Social aspects
- Science -- Social aspects
- Science | Social aspects
- Weltbild
- Weltbild
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work--their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world--so that outsiders can understand it. Martin H. Krieger explains that physicists employ a small number of everyday notions to get at the world experimentally and conceptually. Krieger's stories focus on five of these models: the division of labor among particles, fields, and spacetime in the "factory" of Nature; the analysis of the world as a clockworks of comparatively dumb parts whose composition is often surprisingly complex and rich; the play of freedom and necessity given by a set of kinship rules that govern the families of particles; the setting of a simple stage, a vacuum, on which something arises out of nothing; and a mode of grasping the world with the handles, probes, and tools that make up a physicist's tool kit. In each case, Krieger shows that the deepest principles of physics are embodied in the physicist's craft and conventions
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Krieger, Martin H
- Dewey number
- 530/.092/2
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC29
- LC item number
- .K75 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Physicists
- Physics
- Physics
- Science
- Ethnology
- Ethnology
- Physicists
- Physics
- Physics
- Science
- Berufsbild
- Forschung
- Methode
- Physik
- Physiker
- Weltbild
- Physik
- Forschung
- Weltbild
- Label
- Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world, Martin H. Krieger
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-156) and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The division of labor: the factory -- Taking apart and putting together: the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer -- Freedom and necessity: family and kinship -- The vacuum and the creation: setting a stage -- Handles, probes, and tools: a rhetoric of nature
- Control code
- ocm24009189
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xx, 168 pages
- Isbn
- 9780253331236
- Lccn
- 91020305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o24009189
- (OCoLC)24009189
- Label
- Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world, Martin H. Krieger
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-156) and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The division of labor: the factory -- Taking apart and putting together: the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer -- Freedom and necessity: family and kinship -- The vacuum and the creation: setting a stage -- Handles, probes, and tools: a rhetoric of nature
- Control code
- ocm24009189
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xx, 168 pages
- Isbn
- 9780253331236
- Lccn
- 91020305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o24009189
- (OCoLC)24009189
Subject
- Ethnology
- Ethnology
- Forschung
- Forschung
- Methode
- Physicists
- Physicists
- Physics -- Methodology
- Physics -- Methodology
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Berufsbild
- Physics | Methodology
- Physics | Philosophy
- Physik
- Physik
- Physiker
- Science -- Social aspects
- Science -- Social aspects
- Science | Social aspects
- Weltbild
- Weltbild
- Physics -- Philosophy
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