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Newton's Corpuscles, Maxwell's Waves, and Einstein's Quanta

Autor Trilochan Pradhan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2016
Newton thought of light rays to be streams of tiny particles called corpuscles which cause sensation of light upon striking the retina of our eyes. But how can such corpuscles coming from two different sources interfere to give dark and bright fringes unless they kill each other at the site of dark fringe? This probably led Thomas Young to say that light is some kind of wave motion. But what kind? The answer to such a question came from Maxwell who showed that it is electromagnetic wave motion. However, his electromagnetic theory failed to explain black-body spectrum and photoelectric effect. It was through the works of Planck, Einstein and Compton, it became clear that in these experiments light behaves as particles called photon, which are different from Newton's corpuscles. The three facets of light corpuscles, waves and quanta, as viewed by the three great physicists Newton, Maxwell and Einstein are the subject matter of this book. The author has tried to show that these three are related in the sense that one can pass on from the first to the second and therefrom to the third by certain prescriptions. The physics of all the three are presented in great detail in three chapters.
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ISBN-13: 9788130918013
ISBN-10: 8130918013
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: MV Learning

Notă biografică

Trilochan Pradhan, Honorary professor Emeritus, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India and its founding director (1974-89), obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, US in 1956. He headed the Theoretical Nuclear Physics Division at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (1964-74) and served as the Vice Chancellor of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (1989-91)

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The three facets of light - corpuscles, waves and quanta - as viewed by the three great physicists, Newton, Maxwell and Einstein, are the subject of this book. The author shows that these three are related in the sense that one can pass on from the first to the second to the third by certain prescriptions. The physics of all the three are presented in great detail.