Doing Physics, Second Edition by Martin H Krieger

Doing Physics, Second Edition by Martin H Krieger

Makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge

Krieger. . excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature.

* Choice *

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.

* good reads *

This is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future.

-- John Gribbin * New Scientist *

This unusual book introduces 'the moves, the rituals, the incantations' physicists invoke as they go about conceptualizing Nature. The lucid-but-loaded writing makes quite complex ideas accessible to the mathless reader. . . . The rewards are a better understanding of how physics is done.

* Whole Earth Millennial Catalog *

An excellent [and innovative] book.

* Isis *

Martin H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.

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ISBN 13	9780253006073
ISBN 10	0253006074
Title	Doing Physics, Second Edition
Author	Martin H Krieger
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2012-11-19
Number of pages	248
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