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UNISALENTO991001626219707536 |
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D'Agostino, Salvo |
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A history of the ideas of theoretical physics : essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics / by Salvo D'Agostino |
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Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c2000 |
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xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 213 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-377) and index |
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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: Schr·odinger's new interpretation of wave mechanics and microphysics in the 1950s |
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