Understanding Physics
Subtitle: Volume II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Physics
Description: From Chapter 1 after a discussion of light as a wave vs light as a particle...

For two centuries after Newton, physicists vacillated between these two points of view: waves and particles. The former required an ether, the latter did not. This volume will be devoted, in good part, to the details of this vacillation between the two views. In the eighteenth century, the particle view was dominant; in the nineteenth, the wave view. Then, as the twentieth century opened, a curious thing happened&mdash;the two views melted into each other and became one!
Notes: "Mentor books."

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Mechanism
label: 1; title: The Newtonian View
pagenum: 1; title: Action at a Distance
pagenum: 3; title: Light
label: 2; title: Transmission
pagenum: 7; title: Reflection
pagenum: 12; title: Curved Mirrors 14; title: Refraction 23; title: Lenses
label: 3; title: Focus by Transmission
pagenum: 29; title: Spectacles
pagenum: 33; title: Cameras
pagenum: 37; title: Magnification
pagenum: 41; title: Microscopes and Telescopes
pagenum: 45; title: Color
label: 4; title: Spectra
pagenum: 50; title: Reflecting Telescopes
pagenum: 54; title: Spectral Lines
pagenum: 57; title: Diffraction
pagenum: 60; title: Light Waves
label: 5; title: Interference
pagenum: 66; title: The Velocity of Light
pagenum: 70; title: The Doppler-Fizeau Effect
pagenum: 76; title: Polarized Light
pagenum: 80; title: The Ether
label: 6; title: Absolute Motion
pagenum: 86; title: The Michelson-Morley Experiment
pagenum: 91; title: The FitzGerald Contraction
pagenum: 96; title: Relativity
label: 7; title: The Special Theory
pagenum: 101; title: Mass-Energy Equivalence
pagenum: 107; title: Relative Time
pagenum: 112; title: The General Theory
pagenum: 117; title: Gravitation
pagenum: 119; title: Quanta
label: 8; title: Black-Body Radiation
pagenum: 125; title: Planck's Constant
pagenum: 128; title: Photoelectric Effect
pagenum: 132; title: Photons
pagenum: 135; title: Magnetism
label: 9; title: Magnetic Poles
pagenum: 140; title: Magnetic Domains
pagenum: 144; title: The Earth as a Magnet
pagenum: 148; title: Magnetic Fields
pagenum: 151; title: Electrostatics
label: 10; title: Electric Charge
pagenum: 157; title: Electrons
pagenum: 162; title: Electromotive Force
pagenum: 166; title: Condensers
pagenum: 169; title: Electric Currents
label: 11; title: Continuous Electron Flow
pagenum: 177; title: Chemical Cells
pagenum: 180; title: Resistance
pagenum: 183; title: Electric Power
pagenum: 188; title: Circuits
pagenum: 191; title: Batteries
pagenum: 196; title: Electromagnetism
label: 12; title: Oersted's Experiment
pagenum: 201; title: Applications of Electromagnetism
pagenum: 206; title: Measurement of Current
pagenum: 212; title: Generators
pagenum: 214; title: Alternating Current
label: 13; title: The Armature
pagenum: 221; title: Impedance
pagenum: 224; title: Transformers
pagenum: 229; title: Motors
pagenum: 332; title: Electromagnetic Radiation
label: 14; title: Maxwell's Equations
pagenum: 236; title: Index
pagenum: 241