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© Stephen G. Brush

History of Physics: Selected Reprints

Edited by Stephen G. Brush

College Park, MD: American Association of Physics Teachers, 1988. 235 pp. ISBN 0-917853-29-6 (paperback).

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CONTENTS

Resource Letter HP-1: History of Physics, by Stephen G. Brush

    I. Mechanics
  • Mechanics from Bradwardine to Galileo, by William A. Wallace
  • Galileo's Discovery of the Law of Free Fall, by Stillman Drake
  • Newton's Second Law and the Concept of Force in the Principia, by I. Bernard Cohen
    II. Optics, Electricity, and Magnetism
  • The Physical Interpretation of the Wave Theory of Light, by Frank A. J. L. James
  • Speculation and Experiment in the Background of Oersted's Discovery of Electromagnetism, by Robert C. Stauffer
  • The Mutual Embrace of Electricity and Magnetism, by M. Norton Wise
    III. Heat, Kinetic Theory, Properties of Matter
  • Max Planck and the Beginnings of the Quantum Theory, by Martin J. Klein
  • Revisiting Planck, by Thomas S. Kuhn
  • Schrödinger's Route to Wave Mechanics, by Linda Wessels
    V. Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • The Discovery of Atomic Transmutation: Scientific Styles and Philosophies in France and Britain, by Marjorie Malley
    VI. Relativity
  • Einstein and the "Crucial" Experiment, by Gerald Holton
  • On Einstein's Invention of Special Relativity, by Arthur I. Miller