Basic Concepts in Relativity and Early Quantum Theory***

  • THE EXPERIMENTAL BACKGROUND OF THE THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
    • INTRODUCTION
    • GALILEAN TRANSFORMATIONS
    • NEWTONIAN RELATIVITY
    • ELECTROMAGNETISM AND NEWTONIAN RELATIVITY
    • ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE THE ABSOLUTE FRAME—THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
    • ATTEMPTS TO “SAVE THE ETHER”- THE LORENTZ-FITZGERALD CONTRACTION
    • ATTEMPTS TO “SAVE THE ETHER”— THE ETHER-DRAG HYPOTHESIS
    • ATTEMPTS TO MODIFY ELECTRODYNAMICS
    • THE POSTULATES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY THEORY
    • EINSTEIN AND THE ORIGIN OF RELATIVITY THEORY
  • RELATIVISTIC KINEMATICS
    • THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY
    • DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION EQUATIONS
    • SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION EQUATIONS
    • THE LORENTZ EQUATIONS—A MORE PHYSICAL LOOK
  • RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS
    • MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY
    • THE NEED TO REDEFINE MOMENTUM
    • RELATIVISTIC MOMENTUM
    • THE RELATIVISTIC FORCE LAW AND THE DYNAMICS OF A SINGLE PARTICLE
    • SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
    • THE EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY
    • RELATIVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
  • THE QUANTIZATION OF ENERGY
    • INTRODUCTION
    • THERMAL RADIATION
    • THE THEORY OF CAVITY RADIATION
    • THE RAYLEIGH-JEANS RADIATION LAW
    • ENERGY QUANTIZATION AND THE HEAT CAPACITIES OF SOLIDS
    • THE FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT
    • EPILOGUE
  • THE PARTICLE NATURE OF RADIATION
    • INTRODUCTION
    • THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
    • EINSTEIN’S QUANTUM THEORY OF THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
  • THE WAVE NATURE OF MATTER AND THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
  • EARLY QUANTUM THEORY OF THE ATOM
    • J. J. THOMSON’S MODEL OF THE ATOM
    • THE NUCLEAR ATOM
    • THE STABILITY OF THE NUCLEAR ATOM
    • THE SPECTRA OF ATOMS
    • THE BOHR SEMICLASSICAL PLANETARY MODEL OF THE ONE-ELECTRON ATOM
    • THE QUANTIZATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM
    • CORRECTION FOR THE NUCLEAR MASS
    • BOHR THEORY-THE HIGH-WATER MARK
    • QUANTUM MECHANICS—A PREVIEW
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC A
    • THE GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF SPACETIME
      • A-1 SPACETIME DIAGRAMS
      • A-2 CALIBRATING THE SPA CETIME AXES
      • A-3 SIMULTANEITY, CONTRACTION, AND DILATION
      • A-4 THE TIME ORDER AND SPACE SEPARATION OF EVENTS
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC B
    • THE TWIN PARADOX
      • B-1 THE ELAPSED PROPER TIME DEPENDS ON THE ROUTE
      • B-2 SPACETIME DIAGRAM OF THE TWIN PARADOX
      • B-3 SOME OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC C
    • THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE AND THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC D
    • THE RADIANCY AND THE ENERGY DENSITY
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC E
    • EINSTEIN’S DERIVATION OF PLANCK’S RADIATION LAW
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC F
    • DEBYE’S THEORY OF THE HEAT CAPACITY OF SOLIDS
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC G
    • PHASE SPEED AND GROUP SPEED
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC H
    • MATTER WAVES—REFRACTION AT THE CRYSTAL SURFACE
  • SUPPLEMENTARY TOPIC I
    • RUTHERFORD SCATTERING
      • A SINGLE SCATTERING EVENT
      • MANY SCATTERING EVENTS
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