A history of the ideas of theoretical physics

essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics

A history of the ideas of theoretical physics
Salvo D'Agostino, Salvo D'Agos ...
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A history of the ideas of theoretical physics

essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics

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English
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381

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Table of Contents

A consideration on the changing role of mathematics in Ampère's and Weber's electrodynamics
A survey of the theories of units and dimensions in nineteenth-century physics
A historical role for dimensional analysis in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light
Problems of theoretical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century
German electrodynamics in the 1870's
Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves
Hertz's 1884 theoretical discovery of electromagnetic waves
A foundation for theoretical physics in Hertz's introduction to Die prinzipien der mechanik
On Boltzmann's mechanics and his bild-conception of physical theory
Einstein's correspondence criterium and the construction of general relativity
Einstein's life-long doubts on the physical foundations of the general relativity and unified field theories
Correspondence and complementarity in Niels Bohr's papers 1925-1927
From the 1926 wave mechanics to a second-quantisation theory: Schrödinger's new interpretation of wave mechanics and microphysics in the 1950s
Conclusions.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-377) and index.

Published in
Dordrecht, Boston
Series
Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 213

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001./01 s, 530.1/09/034
Library of Congress
Q174 .B67 no. 213

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Pagination
xviii, 381 p. :
Number of pages
381

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18312770M
ISBN 10
079236094X
LCCN
99058405
Library Thing
6587379

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