Turning Points in Physics (eBook)

A Series of Lectures Given at Oxford University in Trinity Term 1958

R.J. Blin-Stoyle, D. ter Haar, K. Mendelssohn (Autoren)

J. de Boer, H. Brinkman, H. B. G. Casimir (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
198 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-2139-7 (ISBN)

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Turning Points in Physics is a series of 1958 lectures presented at the Oxford University in Trinity Term. This six-chapter book highlights the interplay between assumptions, theories, and experimental discoveries in physics. The first chapter provides a brief introduction to the physical theory and field physics. The following two chapters cover the basic principles of quantum nature of matter and radiation, as well as the introduction of the probability concept in the field physics. The discussion then shifts to the theory of relativity and the fundamentals of cause and effect. The last chapter focuses on the concept of elementary particle physics. This chapter also explores general topics in physics, including conservation, quantization of change, fermions, bosons, mirror symmetry, gravitation, and masses. This book is directed toward physicists, theorists, and physics teachers and students.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Turning Points in Physics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
INTRODUCTION 8
CHAPTER I. THE END OF MECHANISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE RISE OF FIELD PHYSICS 12
l. Physical Theory 12
2. The Mechanistic Philosophy 13
3. The Decline of the Mechanistic Philosophy 21
4. Field Physics 26
CHAPTER II. THE QUANTUM NATURE OF MATTER AND RADIATION 37
CHAPTER III. PROBABILITY ENTERS PHYSICS 52
CHAPTER IV. FROM THE RELATIVE TO THE ABSOLUTE 75
CHAPTER V. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CAUSALITY 91
CHAPTER VI. Towards New Concepts Elementary Particles 162
1. The Deficiency of Language 162
2. The Conflict of Analogies 164
3. Translational and Rotational Symmetries 167
4. Conservation and Quantization of Charge 171
5. Conservation of Baryons: Anti-Particles 173
6. Conservation of Leptons 174
7. Non–Conserved Particles 175
8. Fermions and Bosons 175
9. Spin and Statistics 176
10. Isotopie Spin 178
11. Mirror Symmetry: Parity 181
12. Particle-Anti-Particle Symmetry: Charge Conjugation 184
13. Time Reversal Symmetry 184
14. Combinations of Symmetries: Relativistic Invariance 185
13. Strangeness 185
16. Particles and Fields: The Virtual State 188
17. The Transformation of Particles 190
18. Degrees of Stability 193
19. Gravitation, Masses, Couplings 194
Appendix I: THE SYMMETRY AND CONSERVATION PROPERTIES 196
Appendix II: THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES 197

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-2139-3 / 1483221393
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-2139-7 / 9781483221397