Historical Burdens on Physics

When learning physics, one follows a track very similar to the historical path of the evolution of this science: one takes detours, overcomes superfluous obstacles and repeats mistakes, one learns inappropriate concepts and uses outdated methods. In the book, more than 200 articles present and analyze such obsolete concepts methods. All articles have the same structure: 1. subject, 2. deficiencies, 3. origin, 4. disposal. The articles had originally appeared as columns in various magazines. Accordingly, we had tried to write them in an easily understandable way.