Radiation Theory and the Quantum Revolution
By: von Joseph Agassi
Published: 1993
Language: ger
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9783034872164; 9783034872171
Subjects: Quantum theory; Quantum Physics; Physics
Table of contents: title: 1: Radiation Theory; title: Absorption And Emissionv; title: Big Questions And Small Questions; title: The Rear Guard of Science; title: The Background to Radiation Theory; title: Unity And Diversity In Nature; title: Kirchhoff's Law; title: 2: The Background to Radiation Theory; title: Flames as Things; title: Heat as Substance; title: Radiant Heat; title: The Place of Prevost's Law in History; title: 3: The Rise of Spectroscopy; title: Spectral Lines; title: The Discovery of Spectral Lines: A Problem; title: The Discovery of Spectral Lines: The Story; title: The Discovery of Spectral Lines: A Discussion; title: The Rise of Astrophysics; title: Clues and Promises in Science; title: The Place of Young in History; title: 4: The Changing Scenery; title: The Wave Theory of Light; title: More About Waves; title: Light Waves and Matter; title: Heat as Energy; title: 5: Kirchhoff's Law; title: Spectral Analysis; title: Absorption Spectra; title: Emission and Absorption Coefficients; title: Kirchhoff's Law; title: Kirchhoff's Followers; title: Spectral Lines Between Kirchhoff and Bohr; title: Atomic Spectra and the End of Atomism; title: 6: The Background To Quantum Theory; title: The Stefan-Boltzmann Law; title: Wien's Law; title: The Red Herring of the Violet Catastrophe; title: Planck and Bohr on Models; title: Planck's Law; title: Einstein and the Photoelectric Effect; title: The Crisis in Physics; title: Appendix A: The Kirchhoff-Planck Radiation Law; title: Prevost's Law of Exchange; title: Fraunhofer's Discovery of Spectroscopy; title: Stewart's Law of Radiation; title: Preliminaries to Kirchhoff's Law of Radiation; title: Kirchhoff's Law and Its Proof; title: Between Kirchhoff and Planck; title: Planck's Studies Prior to His Quantization; title: Einstein's Version of Kirchhoff's Law; title: References and Notes; title: Appendix B: The Structure of the Quantum Revolution; title: Kuhn on Planck; title: Kuhn on the Quantum Revolution; title: Kuhn's Sociology of Science; title: Planck's Program; title: The Status of Entropy; title: Planck Versus Boltzmann; title: Planck's Capitulation to Boltzmann; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Appendix C: Quantum Duality; title: and Abstract; title: Dismissing Popular Cynicism about Science; title: Approximationism in Action in Modern Physics; title: The Confused Roots of Complementarity; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliographic Note; title: Name Index.