A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0244-1 (ISBN)
One: From Mechanics to Electrodynamics.- Foreword to Part One.- 1. A Consideration on the Changing Role of Mathematics in Ampère’s and Weber’s Electrodynamics.- 2. A Survey of Theories of Units and Dimensions in Nineteenth-Century Physics.- 3. A Historical Role for Dimensional Analysis in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory of Light.- 4. Problems of Theoretical Physics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.- Two: Electromagnetic Waves.- Foreword to Part Two.- 5. German Electrodynamics in the 1870’s.- 6. Hertz’s Experiments on Electromagnetic Waves.- 7. Hertz’s 1884 Theoretical Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves.- 8. A Foundation for Theoretical Physics in Hertz’s Introduction to Die Prinzipien der Mechanik.- 9. On Boltzmann’s Mechanics and His Bild-Conception of Physical Theory.- Three: From Relativity to Quantum Theory.- Foreword to Part Three.- 10. Einstein’s Correspondence Criterium and the Construction of General Relativity.- 11. Einstein’s Life-Long Doubts on the Physical Foundations of the General Relativity and Unified Field Theories.- 12. Correspondence and Complementarity in Niels Bohr’s Papers 1925–1927.- 13. From the 1926 Wave Mechanics to a Second-Quantisation Theory: Schrödinger’s New Interpretation of Wave Mechanics and Microphysics in the 1950’s.- 14. Conclusions.- Notes.- Bibliography: Primary Sources.- Bibliography: Secondary Sources.
Reihe/Serie | Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 213 |
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Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 382 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 244 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
ISBN-10 | 1-4020-0244-0 / 1402002440 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-0244-1 / 9781402002441 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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