For several years, the author has given at Cornell University, and, occasionally, in summer
sessions, elsewhere, a course of lectures under the title" Introduction to Modern Physical …

I n November 1881, DA Appleton and Company of New York City issued as Volume XXXVIII
of their International Scientific Series a highly unusual sort of book, entirely without …

THIS book, based on a year course of five lectures a week given y the author at Yale, is
designed as a text for first-year graduate students and for college seniors who are …

There are a vast number of detailed and comprehensive histories, both of general science
and of special departments of science. Most of these are admirable for the scientific reader …

Welcome to physics, the science of relativity and gravitation, matter and energy, quarks and
quanta, lasers and masers, and many other intriguing scientific areas. Since the appearance …

A FEW WORDS may be in order at the outset to explain why I have chosen the title" Modern
Science and Modern Man" for this series of four lectures. When I was honored by the …

THE extent of theoretical physics is now so vast that the urge to provide manuals,
handbooks, collections of basic formulas, brief encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc., for ready …

This book is for students who love physics and theoretical physics. It arises from the
dichotomy which, in my view, pervades most attempts to teach the ideal course in physics …

4 THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL THEORY the younger generation of physicists, born since
the special theory of relativity was formulated, do seem to have to a large degree just this …

EIGHTEEN YEARS have elapsed since the last or ninth edition of the'Connexion of the
Physical Sciences' was published. During that time rapid advances have been made in all …