http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) : illustrations.
Traces the development of physics from 2000 years ago to the experimental theories of the 20th century.
Greek physics -- Greek astronomy -- Pre-Galilean science -- The physics of Galileo -- Newton and his physics: The nature of theory -- Newton's law of gravity and his contemporaries -- The post-Newtonian era: Dynamic conservation principles -- The post-Newtonian era: minimal principles and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics -- The growth of optics, electricity, and magnetism -- The Faraday-Maxwell era -- The broadest laws of physics: Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics -- Origin of the quantum theory -- Planck's black-body radiation formula and Einstein's photon -- Experimental physics at the close of the nineteenth century -- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity -- Atomic theory: The Bohr atom -- Quantum mechanics -- Nuclear physics -- Particle physics -- Cosmology.