A history of the ideas of theoretical physics
Subtitle: essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics
By: by Salvo D'Agostino.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 213
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Physics -- History -- 19th century.; Physics -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-377) and index.
Table of contents: value: A consideration on the changing role of mathematics in Ampère's and Weber's electrodynamics; value: A survey of the theories of units and dimensions in nineteenth-century physics; value: A historical role for dimensional analysis in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light; value: Problems of theoretical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century; value: German electrodynamics in the 1870's; value: Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves; value: Hertz's 1884 theoretical discovery of electromagnetic waves; value: A foundation for theoretical physics in Hertz's introduction to Die prinzipien der mechanik; value: On Boltzmann's mechanics and his bild-conception of physical theory; value: Einstein's correspondence criterium and the construction of general relativity; value: Einstein's life-long doubts on the physical foundations of the general relativity and unified field theories; value: Correspondence and complementarity in Niels Bohr's papers 1925-1927; value: From the 1926 wave mechanics to a second-quantisation theory: Schrödinger's new interpretation of wave mechanics and microphysics in the 1950s; value: Conclusions.