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Author : William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Notes of Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by William Thomson Baron Kelvin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by Lord William Thomson Kelvin and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1904 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomson
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Notes of Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
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Download or read book Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by William Thomson Baron Kelvin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Hegselmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586861
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View written by R. Hegselmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are now available. Both make computer-based model building and simulation possible in social science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding of social dynamics. Such social dynamics refer to public opinion formation, partner choice, strategy decisions in social dilemma situations and much more. In the context of such modelling approaches, novel problems in philosophy of science arise which must be analysed - the main aim of this book. Interest in social simulation has recently been growing rapidly world- wide, mainly as a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal computers. The field has also been greatly influenced by developments in cellular automata theory (from mathematics) and in distributed artificial intelligence which provided tools readily applicable to social simulation. This book presents a number of modelling and simulation approaches and their relations to problems in philosophy of science. It addresses sociologists and other social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical sociology, and computer simulation as well as computer scientists interested in social science applications, and philosophers of social science.
Author : P. M. Harman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521005852
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell written by P. M. Harman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines James Clerk Maxwell, creator of the electromagnetic theory of light and kinetic theory of gases.
Author : Robert W. Proctor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199753628
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Psychology of Science written by Robert W. Proctor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of science, sometimes referred to as metascience, is a new and growing field that includes the philosophy of science, history of science, sociology of science, and anthropology of science. In the last ten years, the formal study of the psychology of science has also emerged. The psychology of science focuses on the individual scientist, influenced by intelligence, motivation, personality, and the development of scientific interest, thought, ability, and achievement over a lifespan. Science can be defined as explicitly and systematically testing hypotheses. Defined more broadly, science includes wider processes, such as theory construction and the hypothesis testing seen in children and "non-scientific" adults. Most prior work in the study of science has emphasized the role of explicit reasoning; however, contemporary research in psychology emphasizes the importance of implicit processes in decision-making and choice and assumes that the performance of many tasks involves a complex relationship between implicit and explicit processes. Psychology of Science brings together contributions from leaders in the emerging discipline of the psychology of science with other experts on the roles of implicit and explicit processes in thinking. Highlighting the role of implicit processes in the creation of scientific knowledge, this volume links the psychology of science to many strands of psychology , including cognitive, social, and developmental psychology, as well as neuroscience. Ultimately, this volume raises awareness of the psychology of science among psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists of science, and anyone interested in the metasciences.
Author : José Ignacio Galparsoro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462092966
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Naturalism written by José Ignacio Galparsoro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To naturalists, there is no such thing as complete justification for any claim, and so requiring complete warrant for naturalist proposals is an unreasonable request. The proper guideline for naturalist proposals seems thus clear: develop it using the methods of science; if this leads to a fruitful stance, then explicate and reassess. The resulting offer will exhibit virtuous circularity if its explanatory feedback loop involves critical reassessment as the explanations it encompasses play out. So viewed, naturalism is a philosophical perspective that seeks to unite in a virtuous circle the natural sciences and non-foundationalist, broadly-based empiricism. Other common lines of antinaturalist complaint are that naturalization efforts seem fruitful only in some areas, also that several endeavors outside the sciences serve as sources of knowledge into human life and the human condition, especially in areas where science does not reach terribly far as yet. It seems hard not to grant some truth to many allegories from literature, art and some religions. Naturalism has room for knowledge gathered outside science, provided the imported claims satisfy also by naturalistic methods. Naturalism and the debate about its scope and limits thrive on discrepancy. We hope that, collectively, the selected essays that follow will give a fair view of the vitality and tribulations of naturalism as a variegated contemporary philosophical perspective.
Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226764207
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)
Download or read book The Science of Energy written by Crosbie Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers; to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism; and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility. Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as "actual" and "potential" energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of "energy"—a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization—became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.
Author : Marcel Boumans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134280661
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book How Economists Model the World into Numbers written by Marcel Boumans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics is dominated by model building, therefore a comprehension of how such models work is vital to understanding the discipline. This book provides a critical analysis of the economist's favourite tool, and as such will be an enlightening read for some, and an intriguing one for others.
Author : Kevin Lambert
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988410
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Symbols and Things written by Kevin Lambert and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Though not always physically present with one another, the characters central to this book—from George Green to William Rowan Hamilton—relied heavily on communication technologies as they developed their theories in consort with colleagues. The letters they exchanged, together with the equations, diagrams, tables, or pictures that filled their manuscripts and publications, were all tangible traces of abstract ideas that extended mathematicians into their social and material environment. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, mathematicians needed to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialized world in motion.
Author : Raymond Flood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528242
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy written by Raymond Flood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).
Author : Charles Care
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848829485
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Technology for Modelling written by Charles Care and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a spectrum of understanding around what constitutes analogue computing. To understand the relationship between analogue and digital computing, and what this means for users today, the history must consider how the technology is used. Technology for Modelling investigates the technologies, the concepts, and the applications of analogue computing. The text asserts that analogue computing must be thought of as not just a computing technology, but also as a modelling technology, demonstrating how the history of analogue computing can be understood in terms of the parallel themes of calculation and modelling. The book also includes a number of detailed case studies of the technology's use and application. Topics and features: discusses the meaning of analogue computing and its significance in history, and describes the main differences between analogue and digital computing; provides a chronology of analogue computing, based upon the two major strands of calculation and modeling; examines the wider relationship between computing and modelling, and discusses how the theme of modelling fits within the history of analogue computing; describes how the history of analogue computing evolved through a number of stages of use; presents illustrative case studies on analogue modelling in academic research, oil reservoir modelling, aeronautical design, and meteorology. General readers and researchers in the field of history of computing – as well as history of science more generally – will find this book a fascinating insight into the historical use and evolution of technology. The volume provides a long-needed historical framework and context for these core computing technologies. Dr. Charles Care is a senior software engineer at BT and an Associate Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Warwick, UK.
Author : Boston Public Library
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tian Yu Cao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476074
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories written by Tian Yu Cao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the conceptual and historical foundations of fundamental field theories, including their underlying issues, logic and dynamics.
Author : Melanie Frappier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136285997
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts written by Melanie Frappier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.
Author : R.H. Phaf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401108404
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Learning in Natural and Connectionist Systems written by R.H. Phaf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern research in neural networks has led to powerful artificial learning systems, while recent work in the psychology of human memory has revealed much about how natural systems really learn, including the role of unconscious, implicit, memory processes. Regrettably, the two approaches typically ignore each other. This book, combining the approaches, should contribute to their mutual benefit. New empirical work is presented showing dissociations between implicit and explicit memory performance. Recently proposed explanations for such data lead to a new connectionist learning procedure: CALM (Categorizing and Learning Module), which can learn with or without supervision, and shows practical advantages over many existing procedures. Specific experiments are simulated by a network model (ELAN) composed of CALM modules. A working memory extension to the model is also discussed that could give it symbol manipulation abilities. The book will be of interest to memory psychologists and connectionists, as well as to cognitive scientists who in the past have tended to restrict themselves to symbolic models.
