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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001626219707536

Autore

D'Agostino, Salvo

Titolo

A history of the ideas of theoretical physics : essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics / by Salvo D'Agostino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c2000

ISBN

079236094X

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 213

Classificazione

LC QC7

1:5

Disciplina

530.109034

Soggetti

Physics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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