Introduction to Contemporary PhysicsMacmillan, 1926 - 453 pagine |
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Pagina 2 - Relationships of exactly this sort have been found to hold absolutely without exception, no matter in what gas the drops have been suspended or what sort of droplets were used upon which to catch the ions. In many cases a given drop has been held under observation for five or six hours at a time and has been seen to catch not eight or ten ions, as in the experiment above, but hundreds of them.
Pagina 2 - ... but hundreds of them. Indeed, I have observed, all told, the capture of many thousands of ions in this way, and in no case have I ever found one the charge of which, when tested as above, did not have either exactly the value of the smallest charge ever captured or else a very small multiple of that value. Here, then, is direct, unimpeachable proof that the electron is not a "statistical mean...
Pagina 116 - Darrow as follows : Where Planck in 1900 had said simply that bound electrons emit and absorb energy in fixed finite quantities, and shortly afterwards had softened his novel idea as far as possible by making it apply only to the act of emission, Einstein in 1905 rushed boldly in and presented the idea that these fixed finite quantities of radiant energy retain their identity throughout their wanderings through space from the moment of emission to the moment of absorption. This idea he offered as...
Pagina 130 - ... 1,000 miles and becoming infinitesimal in comparison with its original amount, to act upon a wooden ship in such a way that a plank of that ship flew out of its place to a height of 100 ft.
Pagina 38 - Sans doute, si nos moyens d'investigation devenaient de plus en plus pénétrants, nous découvririons le simple sous le complexe, puis le complexe sous le simple, puis de nouveau le simple sous le complexe, et ainsi de suite, sans que nous puissions prévoir quel sera le dernier terme.
Pagina 121 - This is strange; it is as though the waves beating upon a beach were doubled in their height and the powerful new waves disturbed four times as many pebbles as before, but did not displace a single one of them any farther nor agitate it any more violently than the original gentle waves did to the pebbles that they washed about.
Pagina 370 - Z = 10-\-b and b has the several values 1,2,3,4,5,6. Many of these spectra of multiply-ionized atoms have not yet been analyzed, but the work is proceeding rapidly. There is reason to hope that within a few years we shall be in possession of interpreted spectra not only of many systems of Z electrons about a nucleus of charge Ze, but also of many systems of fewer than Z electrons about nuclei of charge -\-Ze. This may be highly important, as I will try to show by an illustration. We will consider...
Pagina 108 - ... earth from the sun— light in all times has been a recognized and conspicuous feature of the physical world, a perpetual reminder that the material, the tangible, the palpable substances are not the only real ones.
Pagina 100 - This distance x will be the same for any two values ^i and ^j of \(i, such that ^i+^2 = 20. Insofar as the number of deflected electrons emerging with speed sufficient to reach the collector depends on x, it will be the same for both values of \}/. The curve representing the ratio of the number of electrons reaching the collector, for two such angles, plotted versus U, is exempt from this correction, and can be directly compared with a theoretical curve. 9 Or we could assume that there were no deep-seated...