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From Cosmos to Quarks is a novel combination of historical, conceptual and formal introduction to the main ideas in physics. Its first five chapters are devoted to classical physics, keeping in mind its relevance to modern physics. Topics such as planetary motion, statistical mechanics, information and entropy, ferromagnetism, superconductivity,...

Mechanics is one of the oldest and at the same time newest disciplines, in the sense that there are methods and principles developed first in mechanics but now widely used in almost all branches of physics: electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, special and general theory of relativity, etc. More than that, there...