02246nam a22003014i 4500991001626219707536991112s2000 ne a b 001 0 eng 079236094Xb12174117-39ule_instDip.to Fisicaeng530.109034LC QC71:5D'Agostino, Salvo44475A history of the ideas of theoretical physics :essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics /by Salvo D'AgostinoDordrecht ;Boston :Kluwer,c2000xviii, 381 p. :ill. ;25 cmBoston studies in the philosophy of science ;v. 213Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-377) and indexA 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 1950sPhysicsHistory19th centuryPhysicsHistory20th century.b1217411708-07-1521-05-03991001626219707536LE006 1:5 DAG12006000089838le006-E150.00-l- 01010.i1252098621-05-03History of the ideas of theoretical physics144893UNISALENTOle00621-05-03ma -engne 21