A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts Volume IV: Heat, Atoms and Quanta
This book provides a chronological introduction to modern atomic theory, which represented an attempt to reconcile the ancient doctrine of atomism with careful experiments—performed during the 19th century—on the flow of heat through substances and across empty space. Included herein are selections...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A New Science of Heat
- Heat, Symmetry and Mathematics
- Steam Engines and Heat Flow
- Carnot's Cycle
- Engines are Thermometers
- Temperature, Pressure and Reversibility
- The Language of Science
- Energy and Entropy
- Conduction of Heat
- On Radiation
- Atomism and Kinetic Theory
- Atomism and Kinetic Theory 2
- Dynamical and Statistical Laws
- The Discovery of the Electron
- The Mass and Velocity of a-particles
- Identifying the a Particle
- Targeting the Nucleus
- Nuclear Structure
- The Discovery of the Neutron
- The Nature of the Neutron
- Corpuscles of Light
- X-Ray Optics 1
- X-Ray Optics 2
- Electron diffraction 1
- Electron diffraction 2
- The Bohr model of the atom
- Atomic spectra
- The periodic table
- The Birth of the Quantum
- Matter Waves
- Quantum Orthodoxy
- Causality and Chance in Quantum Theory
- Indeterminacy
- Bohm's critique of Copenhagen