THE NEW PHYSICS AND ITS EVOLUTION

By KENNETH SMITH

CONTENTS 1 EARLY ATOMIC THEORY 1 1 GAS PROPERTIES 1 2 CHEMISTRY 1 3 ELECTROLYSIS 1 4 THE ELECTRON 2 THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETIC THEORY 2 1 HEAT AND ENERGY CONTENTS 2 2 ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE 2 3 ENTROPY 2 4 KINETIC THEORY AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS 2 5 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA 2 6 THE ATOMIC SCALE 3 EARLY QUANTUM THEORY 3 1 BLACK BODY RADIATION 3 2 PHOTONS 3 3 THE NUCLEAR ATOM 3 4 ATOMIC ENERGY LEVELS CONTENTS 3 5 EMISSION AND ABSORPTION OF RADIATION 4 RELATIVITY 4 1 EARLY RELATIVITY 4 2 EINSTEINIAN RELATIVITY 4 3 CLOCKS, RULERS, LIGHT WAVES 4 4 MASS, ENERGY, MOMENTUM, FORCE 4 5 PHOTONS AS PARTICLES 4 6 MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS 4 7 CAUSALITY 5 QUANTUM MECHANICS 5 1 DE BROGLIE WAVES CONTENTS 5 2 THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION 5 3 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS 5 4 SPIN AND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM 5 5 BOSONS AND FERMIONS 5 6 SCATTERING 5 7 CANONICAL FORMALISM 5 8 CHARGED PARTICLES IN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS 5 9 PERTURBATION THEORY CONTENTS 5 10 BEYOND WAVE MECHANICS 6 NUCLEAR PHYSICS 6 1 PROTONS AND NEUTRONS 6 2 ISOTOPIC SPIN SYMMETRY 6 3 SHELL STRUCTURE 6 4 ALPHA DECAY 6 5 BETA DECAY 7 QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 7 1 CANONICAL FORMALISM FOR FIELDS 7 2 FREE REAL SCALAR FIELD CONTENTS 7 3 INTERACTIONS 7 4 ANTIPARTICLES, SPIN, STATISTICS 7 5 QUANTUM THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM ASSORTED PROBLEMS 1 FURTHER HISTORICAL DETAILS ABOUT SOME OF THESE MATTERS CAN BE FOUND IN WEINBERG, THE DISCOVERY OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, LISTED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY