Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics

Book Overview

Most recent work on the nature of experiment in physics has focused on "big science"--the large-scale research addressed in Andrew Pickering's Constructing Quarks and Peter Galison's How Experiments End.

This book examines small-scale experiment in physics, in particular the relation between theory and practice. The contributors focus on interactions among the people, materials, and ideas involved in experiments--factors that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226078906
• ISBN13: 9780226078908
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"