{"product_id":"doing-physics-second-edition-how-physicists-take-hold-of-the-world-paperback-softback-9780253006073","title":"Doing Physics, Second Edition; How Physicists Take Hold of the World (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253006073","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDoing Physics, Second Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Physicists Take Hold of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin H. Krieger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253006073\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 November 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Krieger . . . excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work—their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world—so that outsiders can understand it.\"—\u003ci\u003egood reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future.\"—John Gribbin, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This unusual book introduces 'the moves, the rituals, the incantations' physicists invoke as they go about conceptualizing Nature. The lucid-but-loaded writing makes quite complex ideas accessible to the mathless reader. . . . The rewards are a better understanding of how physics is done.\"—\u003ci\u003eWhole Earth Millennial Catalog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An excellent [and innovative] book.\"—\u003ci\u003eIsis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Not many books about physics have six citations of Adam Smith. Building on the analogy that Nature is like an economic system, Krieger provides a novel analysis of how physicists construct models of the world. A fascinating insight into the way scientists think.\"—Dick Easterlin, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Southern California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoing Physics\u003c\/i\u003e makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship—who can marry whom is like what can interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations in terms of interdependent particles and fields is analogous to the design of a factory with its division of labor among specialists. For the new edition, Krieger has revised the text and added a chapter on the role of mathematics and formal models in physics. \u003ci\u003eDoing Physics\u003c\/i\u003e will be of special interest to economists, political theorists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as philosophers of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  Degrees of Freedom; A Note to the Reader; A Note for the Scholars; This Second Edition; Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Division of Labor: The Factory\u003cbr\u003e  Nature as a Factory; Handles and Stories. What Everyday Walls Must Do; Walls for a Factory; Walls as Providential. Particles, Objects, and Workers; What Particles Must Be Like; Intuitions of Walls and Particles. What Fields Must Be Like.\u003cbr\u003e 2. Taking Apart and Putting Together: The Clockworks, The Calculus, and the Computer\u003cbr\u003e  The Right Degrees of Freedom; The Clockworks and The Calculus. Parts Are Strategies; Independence and Randomness; Dependence, Spreadsheets, and Differential Equations; Additivity and The Calculus; Disjoint Functionality and Interpretability: Bureaucracy, Flow Processing Plants, and Object-Oriented Programming; Sequence and Procedure. Parts Are Commitments.\u003cbr\u003e 3. Freedom and Necessity: Family and Kinship\u003cbr\u003e  Recapitulation and Prospect; Kinship, Exchange, and Plenitude; Systematics in the Field; The Problem of \"Quite Rarely\"; Markets and Fetishes; Taking the Rules Seriously; Structure and System.\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Vacuum and The Creation: Setting a Stage\u003cbr\u003e  So Far, an Epitome; Sweeping Up the Vacuum; Symmetry and Order. The Empty Stage; Of Nothing, Something, and the Vacuum. Setting Up the Stage; Ideologies for a Vacuum; The Dialectic of Finding a Good Vacuum; The Analogy of Substance, Once More. Fluctuations in a Vacuum. Annealing the World.\u003cbr\u003e 5. Handles, Probes, and Tools: A Rhetoric of Nature\u003cbr\u003e  A Craft of Science; Some Handles onto the World (Particles, Crystals, Gasses; Analogy; Phase Transitions; Knowledge Is Handling). Probes; Objectivity and Inelasticity; Probes and Handles. Tools and Toolkits; A Physicist's Toolkit; So Far.\u003cbr\u003e 6. Production Machinery: Mathematics for Analysis and Description\u003cbr\u003e  Philosophical Analysis and Phenomenological Description; Machinery and Production Processes; Naming and Modeling the World; Demonstrations and Proofs as Strategies of Explanation; Understanding \"The Physics\"; Analogy and Syzygy; The Mathematics and The Physics\u003cbr\u003e 7. An Epitome\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523559682328,"sku":"9780253006073","price":17.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/doing-physics-second-edition-how-physicists-take-hold-of-the-world-paperback-softback-9780253006073","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}