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Tham khảo sách 'matter and motion_1', khoa học tự nhiên, vật lý phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PART O N E MOT.ON This page intentionally left blank Prologue to Part One 1 Living Ideas 2 Our Place in Time and Space 3 First Things First 4 Aristotle s Universe 1. LIVING IDEAS The purpose of this course is to explore the development and content of the major ideas that have led to our understanding of the physical universe. As in any science course you will learn about many of the important concepts theories and laws that make up the content of the science physics in this case. But this course goes beyond that it presents science as experience as an integrated and exciting intellectual adventure as the product of humankind s continual drive to know and to understand our world and our relationship to it. Not only will you learn about the many ideas and concepts that make up our understanding of the physical world today but equally important these ideas will come alive as we look back at how they arose who the people were who arrived at these ideas in their struggle to understand nature and how this struggle continues today. Our story has two sides to it the ideas of physics and the people and atmosphere of the times in which these ideas emerged. As you watch the rise and fall of physical theories you will gain an appreciation of the nature of science where our current theories came from the reasons why we accept them today and the impact of these theories and ideas on the culture in which they arose. Finally you will see how physics came to be thought of as it is today as an organized body of experimentally tested ideas about the physical world. Information about this world is accumulating ever more rapidly as we reach out into space into the interior of matter and into the subatomic domain. The
