Title:
A practical English grammar. Structure drills. 2 / A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Main Entry:
Thomson, Audrey Jean.
Martinet, A. V.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
1979.
Publication Place:
Oxford :
ISBN:
019431331X
9780194313315
Subject:
English language -- Grammar -- 1950-
English language -- Grammar.
English language Grammar For schools
Contents:
Introduction -- The Old Order: Classical Physics -- From Galileo and Newton: Classical Mechanics -- From Oersted and Faraday: Electromagnetism -- From Rumford and Carnot: Heat and Thermodynamics -- From Daniel Bernoulli and Joule: Kinetic Theory and Statistical Physics -- From Fraunhofer and Kirchhoff: Radiation and Heat -- 1895 -- Clouds on the Horizon -- The Last Stand Against Atoms and Molecules -- Troubles with the Atomic Description of Heat -- The Connection Between Matter and Radiation -- New Rays Are Seen: Cathode and Canal Rays -- An Elusive Ether -- The Entrance of the Electron -- e/m for the Cathode and Canal Rays -- The Ionic Charge e -- A Universal Constituent of Matter -- Brownian Motion: A Determination of k -- A Chaotic Period Begins -- Particles and Fields -- Blackbody Radiation According to Wien -- The Experimental Verdict -- Blackbody Radiation According to Planck; the Appearance of h -- Allergic Reactions to h -- An Initial Lack of Interest -- The Radiation Quantum Appears, Is Rejected -- Other Energy Quanta Appear, Are Accepted -- h's Banishment to Obscure Places -- Relativity -- Conspiracy? -- The Ether Survives; Lorentz's Theory -- The Ether Retires; Einstein's Theory -- The Acceptance: A Special Status for c -- Models of Atoms -- Early Models of Atoms -- How Many Electrons? -- Obscure and Complicated Patterns in Spectra -- The Atom Acquires New Aspects: Radioactivity -- The Atom Acquires a Nucleus; the Rutherford Model -- Quantum Rules and Recipes -- The Hydrogen Atom According to Bohr -- The Hydrogen Atom, Continued -- What to Quantize? -- Chance Enters: Einstein's Transition Probabilities -- More Quantum Numbers and Rules -- Particles and Waves: A Dissolving Distinction -- Radiation and Matter Revisited: The Compton Effect -- Radiation and Matter Revisited: The Dispersion of Light -- Radiation and Matter According to Bose and Einstein -- Matter as Radiation According to de Broglie -- A New Order Emerges: Quantum Mechanics -- Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics -- Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics -- Epilogue -- Suggested Readings -- Index.
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