Recent Developments in Atomic Theory

Into the short compass of this book Professor Graetz has succeeded in compressing an eminently readable survey of the directions in which the atomic theory, as accepted in the nineteenth century, has been extended by the remarkable and almost revolutionary physical investigations and discoveries of the two decades preceding the book.

List of contents

1. Molecules and Atoms in Chemistry, and the Kinetic Theory of Gases 2. Atoms and Ions and Electrical Effects in Liquids and Gases – Atoms of Electricity 3. The Disintegration of Atoms in Radio-active Substances – The Nucleus Theory of the Atom 4. X-Ray Spectra and the Nucleus Theory of the Atom 5. Line Spectra and Bohr’s Model of the Atom 6. Further Investigations on the Structure of Nucleim Atoms, Ions and Molecules – Decompsition of Nuclei

About the author

Leo Graetz, Guy Barr

Summary

Into the short compass of this book Professor Graetz has succeeded in compressing an eminently readable survey of the directions in which the atomic theory, as accepted in the nineteenth century, has been extended by the remarkable and almost revolutionary physical investigations and discoveries of the two decades preceding the book.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Graetz, Graetz Leo
• Assisted by: G. Barr (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138013551
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01355-1
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: 20; Routledge Library Editions: 20th Century Science; Routledge Library Editions: 20th Century Science; Routledge Library Editions: 20
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Philosophy of Science, Historiography, History of Science, Physics, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General