On the trail of blackbody radiation : Max Planck and the physics of his era / Don S. Lemons, William R. Shanahan, and Louis J. Buchholtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemons, Don S. (Don Stephen), 1949- author.

Shanahan, William R., author.

Buchholtz, Louis, author.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blackbody radiation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A concise historical study of On the trail of blackbody radiation, intended to provide insight into the process of scientific discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

A Brief Guide to the Trail

1 The Prehistory of Blackbody Radiation

1.1 Pictet's Experiment and Prevost's Exchanges

1.2 Reflectors, Absorbers, and Emitters of Radiant Heat

1.3 Blackbodies and Blackbody Radiation

2 Classical Thermodynamics

2.1 Why Thermodynamics?

2.2 Equilibrium and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

2.3 The First Law of Thermodynamics

2.4 Thermodynamic Temperature

2.5 The Second Law of Thermodynamics

2.6 The Fluid System

2.7 Example: The Ideal Gas

2.8 The Adiabatic Invariant of an Ideal Gas

2.9 The Entropy of an Ideal Gas

2.10 Relations among Different Forms of the Adiabatic Invariant

3 Kirchhoff's Law, 1859

3.1 Blackbody Radiation and the Laws of Thermodynamics

3.2 The Energy Density of Blackbody Radiation

3.3 The Spectral Energy Density

3.4 Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation

4 The Stefan-BoltzmannLaw, 1884

4.1 Radiation Pressure

4.2 The Stefan-Boltzmann Law

4.3 The Adiabatic Invariant of Blackbody Radiation

4.4 An Alternate Derivation of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law

4.5 The Entropy of Blackbody Radiation

4.6 The Universality of Blackbody Radiation

4.7 Boltzmann's 1884 Derivation

5 Wien's Contributions, 1893-1896

5.1 Spectral Energy Density

5.2 Cumulative Spectral Energy Density

5.3 Thermodynamic Adiabatic Invariants

5.4 Wien's Electromagnetic Adiabatic Invariant

5.5 Wien's Displacement Law

5.6 A Dimensional Consequence of Wien's Displacement Law

5.7 A Practical Consequence of Wien's Displacement Law

5.8 Wien's 1896 Distribution

5.9 Wien's 1893 Derivation

6 The Damped, Driven, Simple Harmonic Oscillator

6.1 Planck Resonator

6.2 Simple Harmonic Oscillator

6.3 The Damped, Simple Harmonic Oscillator

6.4 The Damped, Driven, Simple Harmonic Oscillator.

6.5 Lorentzian Approximation for Weak Damping

7 The Fundamental Relation

7.1 The Fundamental Relation

7.2 The Planck Resonator Model

7.3 The Weakly Damped Planck Resonator

7.4 The Damped, Driven Planck Resonator

7.5 Resonator Responding to a Spectrum

8 Planck's Zeroth Derivation, 1900

8.1 The Zeroth Derivation

8.2 The Thermodynamics of Planck Resonators

8.3 An Irreversible Process and an Incorrect Deduction

8.4 The Wien Distribution

8.5 Planck's "Lucky Intuition"

8.6 Planck's New Task

9 Boltzmann's Statistical Mechanics

9.1 Boltzmann's Physics

9.2 Boltzmann's Legacy

9.3 Boltzmann's First Calculation

9.4 A Continuation of Boltzmann's First Calculation

9.5 The Boltzmann Factor

10 Planck's "First Derivation," 1900-1901

10.1 The "First Derivation"

10.2 Planck's Program

10.3 Boltzmann's Entropy and Planck's Combinatorics

10.4 The Program Completed

10.5 Planck's Natural Units

10.6 The Status of "Energy Elements"

11 Einstein's Response, 1905-1907

11.1 Einstein's Initial Response to Planck's Quantum

11.2 The Entropy of Blackbody Radiation in the Wien Limit

11.3 The Photoelectric Effect

11.4 The Einstein Solid

12 Einstein on Emission and Absorption, 1917

12.1 Einstein's "Quantum Theory of Radiation"

12.2 Einstein's Derivation

12.3 Einstein's Derivation Made Classical?

12.4 Einstein's Missing Quantum Hypothesis

The Big Ideas

Acknowledgments

Annotated Bibliography

Appendix A English Translation of "A Derivation of Stefan's Law, Concerning the Temperature Dependence of Thermal Radiation, from the Electromagnetic Theory of Light" by Ludwig Boltzmann in Graz (1884)

Appendix B English Translation of "A NewRelationship between Blackbody Radiation andthe Second Law of Thermodynamics" by WillyWien in Charlottenburg (1893).

I Process Description

2 Calculation of the Energy Distribution's Alteration Using the Doppler Principle

Appendix C An Electromagnetic AdiabaticInvariant

Appendix D An Ideal Gas "Displacement Law"

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-37039-5

0-262-37038-7

OCLC:

1333708309