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A history of the ideas of theoretical physics : essays on the nineteenth and twentieth century physics
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- Creator
- by Salvo D'Agostino
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780792360940, 079236094X
- OCLC
- ocm42863100
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-377) and index.
- A consideration on the changing role of mathematics in Ampère's and Weber's electrodynamics -- A survey of the theories of units and dimensions in nineteenth-century physics -- A historical role for dimensional analysis in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light -- Problems of theoretical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century -- German electrodynamics in the 1870's -- Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves -- Hertz's 1884 theoretical discovery of electromagnetic waves -- A foundation for theoretical physics in Hertz's introduction to Die prinzipien der mechanik -- On Boltzmann's mechanics and his bild-conception of physical theory -- Einstein's correspondence criterium and the construction of general relativity -- Einstein's life-long doubts on the physical foundations of the general relativity and unified field theories -- Correspondence and complementarity in Niels Bohr's papers 1925-1927 -- From the 1926 wave mechanics to a second-quantisation theory: Schrödinger's new interpretation of wave mechanics and microphysics in the 1950s