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

• Autore: D'Agostino, Salvo
• Pubblicazione: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 530.109034
• Soggetto topico: Physics - History
• Classificazione: LC QC7; 1:5
• 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
• ISBN: 079236094X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001626219707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento
• Serie: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 213