This revised edition encompasses eight chapters from my personal study notes which covers all courses and notes in my study of Nuclear Engineering, from high school throughout my post-doctorate associateship.
Great emphasis is added on the two theories of relativity where the author posed many critical questions regarding the optical definition of relative simultaneity which Einstein used to equate matter with energy through the relation E = mc².
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: ELECTRIC DISCHARGE THROUGH GASES
Electric Discharge under normal gas pressure
Ionization
Disruptive discharge
Sparking potential and pressure of gas
Paschen's law
Nature of discharge: Brush, spark and corona discharges
Mobility of ions
Decay of the ions—Recombination
Electric Discharge under Low Gas Pressure
Behavior of emission of radiation in discharge tube
Discoveries of the cathode tube
Cathode rays
Positive rays
X-rays
Geissler tube
Sodium vapor lamp
Mercury vapor lamp
Fluorescent lamps
CHAPTER 2: THE ELECTRON
. CHARGE TO MASS RATIO (e/m)
Thomson’ s Method
CHARGE OF THE ELECTRON
Methods using the Cloud Chamber
Wilson Cloud Chamber
Thomson’s cloud chamber experiment
H.A. Wilson’s experiment
Millikan’s oil drop method
MASS OF THE ELECTRON
RADIUS OF THE ELECTRON
CHAPTER 3: THE ELECTRON THEORY
ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION IN METALS
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
THERMOELECTRIC EFFECTS
Seebeck effect
Peltier effect
Thomson effect
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
Methods of measuring magnetic susceptibility
Faraday method
Curie magnetic balance
Gouy method
Rowland method
Diamagnetism
Paramagnetism
Ferromagnetisms
Variation of magnetization with field
Magnetic properties of alloys
Heusler alloys
Magneto-striction
Magneto-thermal effects
THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Langevin's theory of diamagnetism
Langevin's theory of paramagnetism
Weiss molecular field theory of paramagnetism
Weiss theory of ferromagnetism
ZEEMAN EFFECT
CRITICISM OF THE ELECTRON THEORY
MAJOR APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRON EMISSION
THERMIONIC EMISSION
The Schottky effect
Cold emission
The shot effect
PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION
PRACTICAL APPLIANCES OF ELECTRON BEAMS
THERMIONIC VALVES
CHAPTER 4: POSITIVE RAYS
POSITIVE RAYS
Sources of positive rays
THOMSON'S PARABOLA METHOD OF POSITIVE RAY ANALYSIS
ASTON'S MASS SPECTROGRAPH
DEMPSTER'S MASS SPECTROGPAPH
BAINBRIDGE'S MASS SPECTROGRAPH
NIER'S MASS SPECTROGRAPH
BAINBRIDGE AND JORDAN DOUBLE-FOCUSSING MASS SPECTROGRAPH
THE ISOTOPIC CONSTITUTION OF ELEMENTS
CHAPTER 5: X-Rays
X-Rays
PRODUCTION AND DETECTION OF X-RAYS
The betatron
The ionizing power of X-rays
WAVE NATURE OF X-RAYS
EXPERIMENT OF LAUE, FRIEDRICH AND KNIPPING
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS OF MEASURING μ FOR X-RAYS
CRYSTAL X-RAY SPECTROMETER
RULED GRATING X-RAY SPECTROGRAPH
ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF X-RAYS
THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS
CHAPTER 6: RADIOACTIVITY
RADIOACTIVITY
DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY
INITIAL RESEARCHES ON RADIOACTIVITY
FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF RADIOACTIVITY
MEASUREMENT OF THE CONSTANTS OF RADIOACTIVE DISINTEGRATION
RADIOACTIVE TIME SCALES
ALPHA RAYS
BETA-RAYS
BECQUEREL'S EXPERIMENT
KAUFMANN'S EXPERIMENT
BUCHERER'S EXPERIMENT
EXPERIMENT OF GUYE AND LAVANCHY
GAMMA-RAYS
WAVELENGTHS OF THE γ-RAYS
USES OF RADIOACTIVITY
CHAPTER 7: THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
ORIGIN OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
TROUTON-NOBLE EXPERIMENT
EINSTEIN'S REVOLUTIONARY IDEA
EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY
SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER 8: THE QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION
THE QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION
CLASSICAL THEORIES OF LIGHT
The classical electromagnetic wave theory
QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION LIGHT QUANTA OR PHOTONS
The photoelectric effect
MILLIKAN'S EXPERIMENT
EXPERIMENT OF MAURICE DE BROGLIE
The Compton effect
CRITICISM OF THE QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION
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