| Description |
370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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| Series |
A Holt-Dryden book |
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Holt-Dryden book.
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| Summary |
The original accounts of twenty-four experiments that created modern physics, retaining the original illustrations where possible. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Accelerated motion / Galileo Galilei -- Boyle's law: pressure-volume relations in a gas / Robert Boyle -- The laws of motion / Isaac Newton -- The laws of electric and magnetic force / Charles Coulomb -- The law of gravitation / Henry Cavendish -- The interference of light / Thomas Young -- The diffraction of light / Augustin Fresnel -- Electromagnetism / Hans Christian Oersted -- Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis / Michael Faraday -- Lenz's law / Heinrich Lenz -- The mechanical equivalent of heat / James Joule -- Electromagnetic waves / Heinrich Hertz -- X-rays / Wilhelm K. Roentgen -- Natural radioactivity / Henri Becquerel -- The electron / J.J. Thomson -- The photoelectric effect / Albert Einstein -- The elementary electric charge / Robert A. Millikan -- Induced transmutation / Ernest Rutherford -- The neutron / James Chadwick -- Appendix: 1. The electromagnetic field / James Clerk Maxwell -- 2. The quantum hypothesis / Max Planck -- 3. The theory of relativity / Albert Einstein -- 4. The hydrogen atom / Niels Bohr -- 5. The Compton effect / Arthur Compton. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Physics -- History.
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Physics. (OCoLC)fst01063025
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Shamos, Morris H. (Morris Herbert), 1917-2002, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780030068454 (paperback) |
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0030068452 (paperback) |
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