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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997. Nature of physical reality. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950 (OCoLC)594352944 Online version: Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997. Nature of physical reality. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950 (OCoLC)608746499 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Margenau |
| OCLC Number: | 918045 |
| Description: | xiii, 479 p. : diagrs. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Preliminary survey of reality -- Ways of arriving at reality -- What is immediately given? -- Departure from the immediate; constructs -- Metaphysical requirements on constructs -- Empirical confirmation -- Space and time -- System, observables, and states -- Physics of discrete systems -- Physics of continua -- Thermodynamics -- The role of definitions in science -- Probability -- Statistical mechanics -- Reality: a first outline -- The breakdown of physical models -- Basic ideas of quantum mechanics -- Uncertainty and measurements -- Causality -- The exclusion principle -- The contours of reality. |
| Responsibility: | Henry Margenau. |
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