Emerging Physics

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History and Philosophy of Physics

Chapter Outline

1.1 Physics today

1.2 Physics in the pre-modern era

1.3 The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Renaissance in science and the scientific revolution

1.4 Post-Newtonian classical physics up to the nineteenth century

1.5 The wave–particle seesaw of light

1.6 From classical to quantum mechanics

1.7 Development of quantum mechanics

1.8 Some other major contributions in the twentieth century

1.9 Indian scientists

1.10 Philosophical aspects

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