Physics in the making essays on developments in 20th century physics : in honour of H.B.G. Casimir on the occasion of his 80th birthday /

H.B.G. Casimir's life, interests and works are intertwined with the important developments that have taken place in physics during this century. This book was compiled by his friends and admirers in honour of his 80th birthday and concentrates mainly on Casimir's achievements in the field...

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Other Authors: Casimir, H. B. G. 1909-2000., Sarlemijn, Andries, 1936-, Sparnaay, M. J., ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations.
Series: North-Holland personal library.
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520 |a H.B.G. Casimir's life, interests and works are intertwined with the important developments that have taken place in physics during this century. This book was compiled by his friends and admirers in honour of his 80th birthday and concentrates mainly on Casimir's achievements in the field of physics, though without ignoring the peripheral areas of the history and philosophy of physics in which he was greatly interested. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes Casimir's teachers, Ehrenfest, Bohr and Pauli, and will be of general interest due to the key role which these physicists played in modern developments. The articles do give new facts and provide new insights into the history of modern physics. Part II consists of essays on recent developments in various areas of physics in which Casimir has taken an active interest, such as the modern concept of time, statistical foundations of electrodynamic theory and field theory. The subjects covered in Part III have been selected because of Casimir's efforts in the industrial research area of physics. They cover past, present and future expectations in research. Part IV contains an essay which discusses a philosophy of physics currently under discussion, which states that phenomenological laws prevail over fundamental ones for the purpose of experimental and technical physics. A second chapter in this final part gives a critical analysis of this philosophical view. The book is concluded by an appendix discussing Casimir's activities as a lecturer, written by a former student. 
505 0 |a Front Cover; Physics in the Making: Essays on Developments in 20th Century Physics; Copyright Page; Preface by D. de Wied, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Preface by the Editors; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PHYSICS; 1.1. Analysis of Factors versus Schematic Models; 1.2. Application of Mathematics and Developments of Modern Physics; 1.3. Experimental Techniques as Development Factor of Modern Physics; 1.4. Orientation on Engineering Methods as a Development Factor. 
505 8 |a 1.5. Orientation on Practical Applications as a Development Factor1.6. The ""Culture"" of Scientists and Engineers; PART I: HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF PHYSICS IN THE MAKING; CHAPTER 2. PHYSICS IN THE MAKING IN LEIDEN: PAUL EHRENFEST AS TEACHER; 2.1. Ehrenfest's Courses; 2.2. Course on Statistical Mechanics in 1915-16; 2.3. The Leiden Colloquium; 2.4. Confidence and Courage; 2.5. ""Uncle Socrates""; CHAPTER 3. PHYSICS IN THE MAKING IN BOHR'S COPENHAGEN; 3.1. Physics in Denmark from a College of the Clergy to the Epoch of Ørsted; 3.2. Bohr's Background; 3.3. Bohr's Education, from Schoolboy to Ph.D. 
505 8 |a 3.4. In which Bohr Encounters J.J. Thomson and Rutherford3.5. In which Bohr Emerges as ""Director of Atomic Physics""; 3.6. How Bohr Became Denmark's First Professor of Theoretical Physics; 3.7. In which Bohr Acquires his Own Institute; 3.8. Bohr As Fund Raiser; 3.9. 1924-1929; 3.10. Envoi; CHAPTER 4. PHYSICS IN THE MAKING IN PAULI'S ZÜRICH; 4.1. Pauli and Trends in Physics after 1926; 4.2. The Impact of the First Copenhagen Conference 1929: Quantum Theory Enters Nuclear Physics; 4.3. The First International Congress on Nuclear Physics at Zürich in May 1931. 
505 8 |a 4.4. A Brief Mathematical Digression: Continuous Groups and their Representations4.5. November 1931: Pauli Receives his First Scientific Honors in Leiden; 4.6. Pauli's New Assistant H.B.G. Casimir; 4.7. Radiation Theory and the Search for New Procedures in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories; 4.8. The End of a Fruitful Collaboration: Casimir's Return to Leiden in the Autumn of 1933; PART II: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS: REPORTS ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; CHAPTER 5. THE PHYSICAL CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE 20TH CENTURY; 5.1. The Physical Concept of Time at About 1900. 
505 8 |a 5.2. Key Theories of the Present Century5.3. Reversible Quantum Processes; 5.4. Quantum Measurement; 5.5. Cosmological Evolution and Arrows of Time; 5.6. The Time-Dependence of the ""Constants"" and the Cosmological Coincidences; 5.7. Black Holes; 5.8. The Beginning and the End; Appendix A: Disorder and Entropy; Appendix B: The Search for an Energy Flux per Unit Solid Angle per Unit Frequency Range which Is of the Same Form for All Inertial Observers; CHAPTER 6. STATISTICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ELECTRODYNAMIC THEORY; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Statistical Derivation of the Macroscopic Field Equations. 
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