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History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 9 (2/10/03)
Classical world pictures (2)
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What does a scientific theory aim for?
Duhem (brief reminder)
Mach
Where does this leave late 19th-century physics?
World pictures
Rethinking mechanics: Hertz
Force and hidden masses
How do we judge a physical
theory?
The energetic world picture
The electromagnetic world picture
A new foundation under
mechanics
Maxwellian EM: vortices
Lorentz's reconstruction
of Maxwell's theory
Newtonian mechanics as a
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Secondary |
Pierre Duhem (1861-1916)
Ernst Mach (1838-1916)
economy of thought
antimetaphysics, conventionalism
Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)
Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form (1894)
electron, ion
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) |
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
Joseph Larmor (1857-1942) |
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| Assignment |
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
: See separate instructions for the writing
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