Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the clarity of the book lies in the method of approach to the problem of physics. The Mechanical Explanation of nature occupies the opening chapters, and how it was devised by Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and others to account for phenomena as they saw them. Next is detailed the new facts about light and magnetics, and its replacement by the current theories of four dimensions, quanta, relativity, and the time-space continuum. Each problem is outlined as it arises in a logical approach, and each theory gets its day in court, with the difficulties that led to its formation...
Waite Memorial:--to Alfred Eisner '39, of New York, Frederick B. Frisch '40, of Ventnor, New Jersey; Paul Melrose '40, of New York; Enrico A. Pope '40, of East Boston; Abraham Schneider '41, of Roxbury; Harold S. Shapero '41, Newton; Richard V. Smith '41, of Belmont, Charles M. Stearns '41, of Sharon, Connecticut; Henry H. D. Sterrett, Jr., '41, of Washington; and Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., '41 Excelsior, Minnesota...
Evolution. In tracing the roots of modern physics, the authors found il necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later...
...produces an electric field, that a moving electric charge produces a magnetic field. The lines of force in these fields were not arranged in Newtonian straight lines but in curves. After curved fields in space came waves of energy. The wave theory of light, which had been opposed by Newton, was picked up again because it was the only way to explain certain phenomena-for example, the diffraction rings produced when light passes through a small aperture. Before electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) were ever demonstrated experimentally, Maxwell distilled them out of his mathematical equations, then showed that their...
CAMBRIDGE--Spencer, Steeds, Jerwood, Newton-Thompson, Folker, Hunter, Lindsay, Parry, forwards; Kemble, Parsons, Downes, Mallett, Ritchie, Leed, Low backs...