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| Autore principale: | D'Agostino, Salvo, 1921-2020.
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| Titolo: | A history of the ideas of theoretical physics : essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics / by Salvo d'Agostino. |
| Pubblicazione: | Dordrecht : Kluwer, c2000. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XVIII, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Serie: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 213 |
| Contiene: | Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. From mechanics to electrodynamics: Foreword to part one. 1. A consideration on the changing role of mathematics in Ampère's and Weber's electrodynamics 2. A survey of theories of units and dimensions in nineteenth-century physics 3. A historical role for dimensional analysis in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light 4. Problems of theoretical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pt. 2. Electromagnetic waves: Foreword to part two. 5. German electrodynamics in the 1870's 6. Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves 7. Hertz's 1884 theoretical discovery of electromagnetic waves 8. A foundation for theoretical physics in Hertz's introduction to Die Prinzipien der Mechanik 9. On Boltzmann's mechanics and his bild-conception of physical theory. Pt. 3. From relativity to quantum theory: Foreword to part three. 10. Einstein's correspondence criterium and the construction of general relativity 11. Einstein's life-long doubts on the physical foundations of the general relativity and unified theories 12. Correspondence and complementarity in Niels Bohr's papers, 1925-1927 13. From the 1926 wave mechanics to a second-quantisation theory: Schrödinger's new interpretation of wave mechanics and microphysycs in the 1950's. Appendix 1. New statistics and the demand for a new objectification: Schrödinger's simile concerning three school-boys and their three awards. Appendix 2. Schrödinger's Fuzzy cat is not representable by a cloud but by a factorisable wave functional. 14. Conclusions. Notes. Bibliography: primary sources. Bibliography: secondary sources. Index |
| ISBN: | 079236094X |
| Discipline: | Elettricità e Magnetismo--Studi. Fisica teorica--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 12380 |
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