Understanding Physics
Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
by Isaac Asimov
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From Chapter 1 after a discussion of light as a wave vs light as a particle...
For two centuries after Newton, physicists vacillated between these two points of view: waves and particles. The former required an ether, the latter did not. This volume will be devoted, in good part, to the details of this vacillation between the two views. In the eighteenth century, the particle view was dominant; in the nineteenth, the wave view. Then, as the twentieth century opened, a curious thing happened—the two views melted into each other and became one!
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Understanding Physics, Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1969-04, New American Library
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Understanding Physics: Volume II. Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1969, New American Library
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Understanding Physics: Volume 2: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1969-04, New American Library
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Understanding Physics: Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1966, New American Library
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Understanding Physics: Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1966, George Allen & Unwin Ltd
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Understanding Physics: Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
1966, George Allen & Unwin
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