Fundaments, Fragments, Open Questions -

a short trip through the building of physics

2 The specific way of thinking of a physicist ( *)
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2.1 Quantities and units (*) . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........45
2.2 Laws and models (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. 52
2.3 The experiment: centre of scientific work (*) . . . ................ . . . 57
2.4 Balances and conservation laws (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ 60
2.5 Mathermatics - the native language of a physicis (*) . . . . . .. . . . 62
2.6 Systems and their environment (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... 66
2.6.1 Concept definitions (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....................66
2.6.2 Feedback systems (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... ............68
2.7 Tipps, tricks and specialities (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .......70
2.7.1 Handling equations containing physical units (*) . . . .................71
2.7.2 Good publishing and patent writing (*) . . . . . .............. . .........73
2.7.3 The division of labour between public and industriel research (*).78
2.7.4 Error analysis (*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................83
2.8 Exercises (-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............90
2.9 Numerical values (-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ..............91
2.10 Literature (-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............92

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