| Description |
viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1959. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 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: The electromagnetic field / James Clerk -- The quantum hypothesis / Max Planck -- The theory of relativity / Albert Einstein -- The hydrogen atom / Niels Bohr -- The Compton effect / Arthur Compton. |
| Subject |
Physics -- History.
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| Added Author |
Shamos, Morris H. (Morris Herbert), 1917-2002
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| ISBN |
0486253465 paperback |
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9780486253466 paperback |
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