A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume IV: Heat, Atoms and Quanta

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
A New Science of Heat....Pages 1-13
Mathematics and Temperature....Pages 15-27
Steam Engines and Heat Flow....Pages 29-44
Carnot’s Cycle....Pages 45-54
Engines as Thermometers....Pages 55-67
The Second Law of Thermodynamics....Pages 69-80
Work, Heat, and Irreversibility....Pages 81-91
Language: Concepts and Conventions....Pages 93-98
Energy and Entropy....Pages 99-111
The Kinetic Theory of Gases....Pages 113-126
Molecules and Maxwell’s Demon....Pages 127-142
The Diffusion Equation....Pages 143-162
Radiant Heat....Pages 163-179
From Positivism to Objectivity....Pages 181-196
Entropy, Probability and Atomism....Pages 197-212
Corpuscles of Light....Pages 213-230
The Discovery of the Electron....Pages 231-246
The Birth of Nuclear Physics....Pages 247-261
Radioactivity....Pages 263-277
Atomic Fission....Pages 279-294
Nuclear Structure....Pages 295-308
The Discovery of the Neutron....Pages 309-319
Neutron Scattering....Pages 321-330
X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 331-343
Compton Scattering....Pages 345-353
Electron Scattering and Diffraction....Pages 355-364
Matter Waves....Pages 365-375
Bohr’s Atomic Model....Pages 377-391
Atomic Spectra and Quantum Numbers....Pages 393-407
The Periodic Table of the Elements....Pages 409-422
Wave Mechanics....Pages 423-441
The Quantum Paradox....Pages 443-456
Back Matter....Pages 457-463