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David Halliday (March 3, 1916 – April 2, 2010) was an American physicist known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics, which he wrote with Robert Resnick. Both textbooks have been in continuous use since 1960 and are available in more than 47 languages.
Modern physics is a branch of physics that developed in the early 20th century and onward or branches greatly influenced by early 20th century physics. Notable branches of modern physics include quantum mechanics , special relativity , and general relativity .
Robert Resnick (January 11, 1923 – January 29, 2014) was a physics educator and author of physics textbooks.. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 11, 1923 [1] and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1939.
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
Classical physics is a group of physics theories that predate modern, more complete, or more widely applicable theories. If a currently accepted theory is considered to be modern, and its introduction represented a major paradigm shift , then the previous theories, or new theories based on the older paradigm, will often be referred to as ...
Kenneth Krane's Modern physics begins a text on quantum and relativity theories with a few pages on the deficiencies of classical physics. [84]: 3 E.T. Whittaker's two volume A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity subtitles volume one to The Classical Theories and volume two The Modern Theories (1900–1926). [85]
It has been suggested by some such as Paul Dirac [13] that this quantum vacuum may be the equivalent in modern physics of a particulate aether. However, Dirac's aether hypothesis was motivated by his dissatisfaction with quantum electrodynamics , and it never gained support from the mainstream scientific community.