Physical Thinking

The Physical Thinking publication contains ten patterns and worked connections between their methods. Start with a physical question for which you need an account, a prediction, an observation or a revised assumption. The methods help constrain unknown laws, choose the effects to retain, derive how a system changes, relate possible microscopic states to collective behavior, use physical similarity and analogues, establish physical limits, and construct measurements and tests. The Preface shows how physical, mathematical and computational contributions work together, and which contribution to revisit when the physical situation changes.