A student's guide through the great physics texts. Heat, atoms and quanta / Volume IV, ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Heat, atoms and quanta
• Further Information: Note: Kerry Kuehn.
• Authors: Kuehn, Kerry, 1972-
• Contents: A New Science of Heat -- Heat, Symmetry and Mathematics -- Steam Engines and Heat Flow -- Carnot's Cycle -- Engines are Thermometers -- Temperature, Pressure and Reversibility -- The Language of Science -- Energy and Entropy -- Conduction of Heat -- On Radiation -- Atomism and Kinetic Theory -- Atomism and Kinetic Theory 2 -- Dynamical and Statistical Laws -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Mass and Velocity of a-particles -- Identifying the a Particle -- Targeting the Nucleus -- Nuclear Structure -- The Discovery of the Neutron -- The Nature of the Neutron -- Corpuscles of Light -- X-Ray Optics 1 -- X-Ray Optics 2 -- Electron diffraction 1 -- Electron diffraction 2 -- The Bohr model of the atom -- Atomic spectra -- The periodic table -- The Birth of the Quantum -- Matter Waves -- Quantum Orthodoxy -- Causality and Chance in Quantum Theory -- Indeterminacy -- Bohm's critique of Copenhagen.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 463 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530; Physics; Physics -- History; Astrophysics; Science -- Philosophy; Science -- Study and teaching; Astrophysics; Physics; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science -- Study & Teaching; Science -- Cosmology; Philosophy of science; Teaching of a specific subject; Relativity physics; Science -- Physics; History of science; Physics; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Philosophy of Science; Science Education; Cosmology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319218281
• Related ISBNs: 331921828X; 9783319218274; 3319218271
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 23, 2015).
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