Physicist's World : The Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge by Thomas...

Name: Physicist's World : The Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge by Thomas...
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How do students learn about physics without picking up a 1,000-page textbook chock-full of complicated equations? The Physicist\u2019s World is the answer. Here, Thomas Grissom explains clearly and succinctly what physics really is: the science of understanding how everything in the universe moves.\nFrom the earliest efforts by Presocratic philosophers contemplating motion to the principal developments of physics through the end of the twentieth century, Grissom tells the unfolding story of our attempt to quantify the material world and to conceptualize the nature of physical laws. \nThrough the centuries, questions about why things move proved to be unanswerable in any absolute, satisfying way. Instead the question became how things move, a direction of thought that led to the rise of modern\n\nPhysicist's World\nThe Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.;