Constructing quantum mechanics. Volume 1, The scaffold : 1900-1923
Anthony Duncan (Author), Michel Janssen (Author)
This is the first of two volumes on the genesis of quantum mechanics, based on the latest scholarship in the field. This first volume covers the key developments in the field in the period between 1900-1923, which provided the scaffold on which modern quantum mechanics was built on
eBook, English, 2019
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019
Electronic books
1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780192584229, 9780191880681, 9780198845478, 0192584227, 019188068X, 0198845472
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Introduction to volume one
Part I Early developments
Planck, the second law of thermodynamics, and black-body radiation
Einstein, equipartition, fluctuations, and quanta
The birth of the Bohr model
Part II The old quantum theory
Guiding principles
Successes
Failures
Appendices
A Classical mechanics
B Spectroscopy
Bibliography
Index