Pauli's Exclusion Principle

Informationen zum Autor Michela Massimi is a Research Fellow at Girton College! University of Cambridge! affiliated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Klappentext Develops a philosophical framework for understanding a scientific principle's validation! for philosophers! historians and physicists. Zusammenfassung There is hardly another principle in physics with more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin! its embedding into quantum mechanics! and later experimental validation and analyses the principle's emergence and validation from historical and philosophical viewpoints. The book will interest philosophers! historians and physicists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The exclusion principle: a philosophical overview; 2. The origins of the exclusion principle: an extremely natural prescriptive rule; 3. From the old quantum theory to the new quantum theory: reconsidering Kuhn's incommensurability; 4. How Pauli's rule became the exclusion principle: from the Fermi-Dirac statistics to the spin-statistics theorem; 5. The exclusion principle opens up new avenues: from the eightfold way to quantum chromodynamics.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michela Massimi
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521839112
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83911-2
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 233 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Fisica teorica