Contents › Part 1

Part 1 — Foundations

1. Epistemology and the Scientific Method
   • What physics is
   • Physics, mathematics, and philosophy
   • Why this treatise follows analytic philosophy
   • The scientific method as used in this treatise
   • Primitive notions
   • How this treatise is organized
2. Measurement, SI Units, and the Theory of Errors
   • Measurement
   • The International System of Units
   • The theory of errors
   • A worked example: timing a pendulum