Autore |
D'Agostino, Salvo
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c2000
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Descrizione fisica |
xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
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Disciplina |
530.109034
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Collana |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 213
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Soggetto topico |
Physics - History
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ISBN |
079236094X
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Classificazione |
LC QC7
1:5
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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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
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Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991001626219707536 |