Great experiments in physics.

Author: Shamos, Morris H. (Morris Herbert), 1917-

Imprint:New York : Holt, [1959]

Description370 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Note:Accelerated motion / Galileo Galilei -- Boyle's Law: pressure-volume relations in a gas / Robert Boyle -- The laws of motion / Isaac Newton -- The laws of electric and magnetic force / Charles Coulomb -- The law of gravitation / Henry Cavendish -- The interference of light / Thomas Young -- The diffraction of light / Augustin Fresnel -- Electromagnetism / Hans Christian Oersted -- Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis / Michael Faraday -- Lenz's law / Henrich Lenz -- The mechanical equivalent of heat / James Joule -- Electromagnetic waves / Heinrich Hertz -- X-rays / Wilhelm K. Roentgen -- Natural adioacivity / Henry Becquerel -- The electron / J.J. Thomson -- The photoelectric effect / Albert Einstein -- The elementary elecric charge / Robert A. Millikan -- Induced transmutation / Ernest Rutherford -- The neutron / James Chadwick -- Appendix: The electromagnetic field / James Clark Maxwel -- The Quantum hypothesis / Max Planck -- THe theory of relativity / Albert Einstein -- The hydrogen atom / Niels Bohr - The compton effect / Arthur Compton.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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