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9780486285269

Landmark Experiments in Twentieth-Century Physics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486285269

  • ISBN10:

    048628526X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-04-20
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

Clear, detailed presentations cover groundbreaking research on X-rays, superconductivity, the neutrino, lasers, many more.

Author Biography

George L. Trigg is a senior editor of the American Physical Society publication Physics. He is the former co-editor of Physical Review Letters and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Applied Physics.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Wave Nature of X Rays
2 Isotopes
3 The Meaning of Atomic Number
4 Superconductivity
5 The Strange Behavior of Liquid Helium
6 Precision Values for Nuclear Magnetic Moments
7 Fine Structure in the Spectrum of Hydrogen
8 The Magnetic Moment of the Electron
9 The Transistor
10 Disproof of a Conservation Law
11 Recoilless Emission and Absorption of Radiation
12 Reality of the Neutrino
13 The Maser and the Laser
14 "Tunneling" and Superconductivity "
15 Higher Symmetry for Elementary Particles
16 A possible Cosmological Clue
Appendix A
  Historical Background and Sketch of the BCS Theory
Name Index
Subject Index

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