Niaz, Mansoor
Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise
1. Introduction
2. Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions
3. Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos
4. Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions
5. Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley
6. Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr
7. Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft
8. Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan
9. Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington
10. Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons
11. Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm
12. Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger
13. Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments
14. Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera
Keywords: Education, Science Education, Philosophy of Science, History of Science
- Author(s)
- Niaz, Mansoor
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Science & Technology Education Library
- Page amount
- 229 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402096266