Philosophy and the foundations of dynamics / Lawrence Sklar.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2013.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 272 p. ; 26 cm
Contiene:
1. Introduction 2. The prehistory of classical dynamics 3. The astronomical revolution 4. Precursors to Newtonian dynamics 5. The Newtonian synthesis; 6. Philosophical aspects of the Newtonian synthesis 7. The history of statics 8. The development of dynamics after Newton 9. The Newtonian approach after Newton 10. From virtual work to Lagrange's equation 11. Extremal principles 12. Some philosophical reflections on explanation and theory 13. Conservation principles 14. Hamilton's equations 15. Canonical transformations, optical analogies and algebraic structures 16. The search for new foundations 17. New directions in the applications of dynamics 18. Spacetime formulations of Newtonian dynamics 19. Formalizations: mass and force 20. Relationist dynamics 21. Modes of explanation 22. Retrospective and conclusions. References. Index
