The University of Chicago Press, Ltd. , 1978, 235 p. This book grew
out of the lecture notes for a course I gave, in 1975, to
nonscience undergraduates at the University of Chicago. It
discusses an area of physics, but it is also intended as a
statement of the sort of material in science which I feel those
outside this field would find most useful and most interesting:
not definitions and the substitution of numbers in formulas - this is not even physics, not levers and inclined planes—the physics of the eighteenth century, and certainly not a view from
below, with choreographed "gee-whizes, " of a tower shrouded in mystery. Rather, it is my hope that there is here a glimpse of how physics actually works, and how working physicists think about the world in which we live.
not definitions and the substitution of numbers in formulas - this is not even physics, not levers and inclined planes—the physics of the eighteenth century, and certainly not a view from
below, with choreographed "gee-whizes, " of a tower shrouded in mystery. Rather, it is my hope that there is here a glimpse of how physics actually works, and how working physicists think about the world in which we live.