Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

The author of Doing Mathematics explores the concepts of physics by demonstrating how physicists think and approach their work.

Doing Physics 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, mechanical systems, and machine tool design...