Max Planck

Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1909 the great German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Planck (18581947) delivered a series of eight lectures at Columbia University giving a fascinating overview of the new state of physics, which he had played a crucial role in bringing about. The first, third, fifth, and sixth lectures present his account of the revolutionary developments occasioned when he first applied the quantum hypothesis to blackbody radiation. The reader is given a valuable opportunity to witness Planck's thought processes both on the level of philosophical principles as well as their application to physical processes on the microscopic and macroscopic scales. In the second and fourth lectures Planck shows how the new ideas of statistical mechanics transformed the understanding of chemical physics. The seventh lecture discusses the principle of least action, while the final one gives an account of the theory of special relativity, of which Planck had been an early champion. These lectures are especially important since they reflect Planck's reconsiderations and rethinking of his original discovery of quantum theory. A new Introduction by Peter Pesic places this book in historical perspective among Planck's works and those of his contemporaries. Now available in this inexpensive edition, it will be of particular interest to students of modern physics and of the philosophy and history of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486151564
• Artikelnr.: 40022609

Autorenporträt

"Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ForMemRS (23 April 1858 - 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. In 1948, the German scientific institution Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which Planck was twice president) was renamed Max Planck Society (MPG). The MPG now includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions."

Inhaltsangabe

FIRST LECTURE. Introduction. Reversibility and Irreversibility SECOND
LECTURE. Thermodynamic States of Equilibrium in Dilute Solutions THIRD
LECTURE. Atomic Theory of Matter FOURTH LECTURE. Equation of State for a
Monatomic Gas FIFTH LECTURE. Heat Radiation. Electrodynamic Theory SIXTH
LECTURE. Heat Radiation. Statistical Theory SEVENTH LECTURE. General
Dynamics. Principle of Least Action EIGHTH LECTURE. General Dynamics.
Principle of Relativity

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