Our Changing Views of Photons - A Tutorial Memoir

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today with advances in nanotechnology and lasers. 'Our Changing Views of Photons - A Tutorial Memoir' describes the changing views of the physics community toward photons, and how photons are viewed today in several contexts.

List of contents

• Preface


• The Cartoons


• Introduction


• Section 1: Basic Background: Everyday Physics and Its Maths


• Section 2: The Photons of Planck, Einstein and Bohr


• Section 3: The Photons of Dirac


• Section 4: Photons as Population Changers


• Section 5: Photon Messengers


• Section 6: Manipulating Photons


• Section 7: Overview; Ways of Regarding Photons


• Section 8: Finale


• Appendix A: Atoms and Their Mathematics


• Appendix B: Radiation and Photons


• Appendix C: Couples Atom and Field Equations


• References


• Index

About the author

Dr. Bruce W. Shore received his PhD degree from MIT in 1960, was a Research Fellow at the Harvard College Observatory, an Associate Professor of Physics at Kansas State University, and retired in 2001 from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where for decades he was involved with theory of coherent atomic excitation. He has published, singly and with numerous European colleagues, descriptions of the relevant physics. He has served as an editor of JOSA B and Reviews of Modern Physics and was a Fellow of the OSA and the APS. He has been an academic visitor in the Physics Departments at Imperial College, London, the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and the Technical University of Darmstadt. Dr. Bruce W. Shore is now deceased.

Summary

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today with advances in nanotechnology and lasers. 'Our Changing Views of Photons - A Tutorial Memoir' describes the changing views of the physics community toward photons, and how photons are viewed today in several contexts.

Additional text

Understandable by anyone with an interest in science.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce W. Shore, Bruce W. (Retired Shore, Bruce W. (Retired) Shore, Shore Bruce W.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2023
• EAN: 9780198877394
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887739-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, History of Science, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Optical physics, Applied physics