Lines of Light

ISBN-13: 9781138455788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str.

J.C.D. Brand

Opis

This work provides a perspective on the creation of a scientific discipline. The reader is led to meet the actual people who have contributed to this field and know their trials as well as breakthroughs. From 1800 to 1930, Brand preserves the thread of scientific thought and activity through six generations of working scientists.

Spis treści

1: Science and Spectra in the Nineteenth Century; 2: Visible and Invisible Radiation, 1800-1825; 3: Joseph Fraunhofer, and the Measurement of Wavelength, 1820-1925; 4: Emission and Absorption, ca. 1800-1870; 5: Penetration of the Infrared, 1830-1910; 6: The Equilibrium Between Matter and Radiation, 1800-1925; 7: Atomic Spectral Series, ca. 1860-1920; 8: Molecular Spectra of Gases, Principally 1860-1890; 9: Empirical Generalizations and Early Quantum Theory, 1885-1925; 10: Structure, Force Field, and Dissociation, ca. 1914-1935; 11: The Convergence of Theory and Experiment, 1920-1930; 12: Symmetry, Spin, and Statistics, 1926-1930

O autorze

J.C.D. Brand