Selected readings in the natural sciences. Volume two.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Page, Thornton, editor.

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Textbooks.

Science.

Physical Description:

[2], 223-434 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University, [between 1958 and 1959?]

Contents:

Topic II. Matter and energy (continued). Cathode rays / J.J. Thomson ; Scattering of alpha and beta particles / Rutherford ; Deflexion of alpha particles / Geiger and Marsden ; The existed of a neutron / Chadwick ; Mass spectra and isotopes / Aston ; High velocity positive ions / Cockcroft and Walton ; Elements of atomic number higher than 92 / Fermi ; The second law of thermodynamics / Kelvin ; Entropy and probability / Boltzmann

Topic III. Life and time. Chemical equilibrium / Le Chatelier ; The chemical nature of carbon / Kekulé ; Aromatic compounds / Körner ; Mendelian proportions / Hardy ; Proofs of the Huttonian theories / Playfair ; Revolutions and catastrophes / Cuvier ; Uniformitarianism / Lyell ; Disintegration products of uranium / Boltwood ; On uniformitarianism / Price ; The origin of species / Darwin

Topic IV. The universe. The scale of the universe / Shapley ; Red-shifts in the spectra of the nebulae / Hubble.

Notes:

Cover title.

"The faculty committee responsible for the selection of these readings ... consisted of: F.I. Boley, M.G. Burford, E.W. Caspari, F. Cunningham, Jr., G.P. Eaton, R.A. Gortner, Jr., A.C. McGill, T.L. Page, J.W. Peoples, P.L. Shiman ... Thornton Page, editor."--Preliminary page [2].

Date range for publication conjectured from dates of employment at Wesleyan University of editor Thornton Page (1958-1971) and committee members George P. Eaton (1955-1959) and Frederic Cunningham, Jr. (-1959).

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

1334603989