The Theory of Heat Radiation - Brossura

Planck, Max

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ISBN 10: 0486668118 ISBN 13: 9780486668116

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2003

Riassunto

The profoundly original ideas introduced by Nobel laureate Max Planck in this endeavor to reconcile the electromagnetic theory of radiation with experimental facts have proved to be of the greatest importance. Few modern introductions to the theory of heat radiation can match this work for precision, care, and attention to details of proof.
Although Planck originally intended the book to be simply the connected account of ten years of study, he soon expanded it to a treatise which could serve as an introduction to the study of the entire theory of radiant heat in terms of the recently discovered principle of quantum action. He states his point of view in the introduction: "The hypothesis of quanta ... may be reduced to the simple proposition that the thermodynamic probability of a physical state is a definite integral number, or, what amounts to the same thing, that the entropy of a state has quite a definite positive value, which, as a minimum, becomes zero, while in contrast therewith, the energy may, according to the classical thermodynamics, decrease without limit to minus infinity." Although several other points of fundamental value in thermodynamics are included, the book is basically a rigorous elaboration of this fundamental idea.
The treatment starts from the simple known experimental laws of optics and advances, by gradual extension and the addition of the results of electrodynamics and thermodynamics, to the problems of spectral distribution of energy and of reversibility.

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Contenuti:

PART I FUNDAMENTAL FACTS AND DEFINITIONS I. General Introduction II. Radiation at Thermodynamic Equilibrium. Kirchhoff's Law. Black Radiation PART II DEDUCTIONS FROM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS I. Maxwell's Radiation Pressure II. Stefan-Boltzmann Law of Radiation III. Wien's Displacement Law IV. Radiation of any Arbitrary Spectral Distribution of Energy. Entropy and Temperature of Monochromatic Radiation V. Electrodynamical Processes in a Stationary Field of Radiation PART III ENTROPY AND PROBABILITY I. Fundamental Definitions and Laws. Hypothesis of Quanta II. Ideal Monatomic Gases III. Ideal Linear Oscillators IV. Direct Calculation of the Entropy in the Case of Thermodynamic Equilibrium PART IV A SYSTEM OF OSCILLATORS IN A STATIONARY FIELD OF RADIATION I. The Elementary Dynamical Law for the Vibrations of an Ideal Oscillator. Hypothesis of Emission of Quanta II. Absorbed Energy III. Emitted Energy. Stationary State IV. The Law of the Normal Distribution of Energy. Elementary Quanta of Matter and Electricity PART V IRREVERSIBLE RADIATION PROCESSES I. Fields of Radiation in General II. One Oscillator in the Field of Radiation III. A System of Oscillators IV. Conservation of Energy and Increase of Entropy. Conclusion List of Papers on Heat Radiation and the Hypothesis of Quanta by the Author Appendices Errata

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Nobel laureate's classic exposition of the theory of radiant heat in terms of the principle of quantum action. Topics include Kirchoff's law, black radiation, Maxwell's radiation pressure, entropy, and much more. Few modern introductions to the theory of heat radiation can match this book for precision, care, and attention to details of proof. 1914 edition. Bibliography.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486668118
• ISBN 13: 9780486668116
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224