Concepts and development of quantum physics / John C. Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Modern physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physics.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 322 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc.,, 1969, ©1955.

Summary:

"In this book [Professor John C. Slater] presents historically the development of the ideas which contribute to the current understanding of atomic and molecular physics, and particularly of quantum mechanics. The text consistently stresses the descriptive rather than the theoretical, and for this reason it will be useful to a wide audience."--Back cover.

Contents:

The atom in nineteenth-century physics

The electron theory and relativity

Beginning of the quantum theory

The nuclear atom

The Bohr atom

X rays and crystal structure

Atomic spectra and the periodic system of the elements

Complex spectra and molecular spectra

Wave mechanics

Atoms, molecules, and solids

Nuclear physics and high-energy particles.

Notes:

Originally published under title: Modern physics.

"This Dover edition, first published in 1969, is an unabridged and slightly corrected reprint of the work originally published in 1955, by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. under the title 'Modern Physics'."

Publisher's catalog of Dover Science books (10 pages at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-313) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Adams copy has autograph of Mark B. Adams, July, 1970.

Other Format:

Online version: Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976. Modern physics. Concepts and development of quantum physics.

ISBN:

0486622657

9780486622651

OCLC:

12785