Newton's Corpuscles, Maxwell's Waves, and Einstein's Quanta
Viva Books (Verlag)
978-81-309-1801-3 (ISBN)
Newton thought of light rays to be streams of tiny particles called corpuscles which cause sensation of light upon striking the retina of our eyes. But how can such corpuscles coming from two different sources interfere to give dark and bright fringes unless they kill each other at the site of dark fringe? This probably led Thomas Young to say that light is some kind of wave motion. But what kind? The answer to such a question came from Maxwell who showed that it is electromagnetic wave motion. However, his electromagnetic theory failed to explain black-body spectrum and photoelectric effect. It was through the works of Planck, Einstein and Compton, it became clear that in these experiments light behaves as particles called photon, which are different from Newton’s corpuscles. The three facets of light – corpuscles, waves and quanta, as viewed by the three great physicists – Newton, Maxwell and Einstein are the subject matter of this book. The author has tried to show that these three are related in the sense that one can pass on from the first to the second and therefrom to the third by certain prescriptions. The physics of all the three are presented in great detail in three chapters.
Trilochan Pradhan, Honorary professor Emeritus, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India and its founding director (1974–89), obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, US in 1956. He headed the Theoretical Nuclear Physics Division at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (1964-74) and served as the Vice Chancellor of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (1989-91)
Newton’s Corpuscles
Lagrangian Formalism
Fermat’s Principle of Least Optical Path
Principle of Least Time
Orbits of Corpuscles in Coulomb Media
Ray Equation Method
Hamilton–Jacobi Method
Wavization of Newtons’s Corpuscles
Introduction
Bohr-Sommerfeld Wavization
de Broglie Wavization
Schrodinger Wavization
O () Group for Corpuscles in a Coulomb Media
Maxwell’s Equations for Wavized Corpuscles
Wave–Corpuscle Duality Maxwell’s Waves
Plane Wave Solution
Plane Wave Solution
Spherical Wave Solution
Convariant form of Maxwell’s Equations
Polarization Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
Maxwell’s Equations in Terms of Potentials
Scalar and Vector Potentials
Pseudoscalar and Pseudovector Potentials
Energy, Momentum and Angular Momentum of the Electromagnetic Field
Energy
Momentum
Angular Momentum
Oscillator Expansion of the Electromagnetic Field
Symmetries of the Electromagnetic Field
Introduction
General Formalism
Poincaré Invariance
Scale Invariance
Special Conformal Invariance
Duality Invariance
Coherence properties of Maxwell’s Waves
Interference of Amplitudes
Interference of Intensities Einstein’s Quanta
Black-body Radiation
Photo-electric Effect
Compton Effect
Epilogue to Einstein’s Theory
Quantization of Maxwell’s Theory
First Quantization
Second Quantization
Covariant Quantization
Conservation Laws in Quantized maxwell Field
Introduction
Poincaré Invariance
Scale Invariances
Special Conformal Invariance
Conformal Group
Duality Invariance
Supersymmetry Algebra
Coherence Properties of Quantized Maxwell Field
First Order Coherence
Second Order Coherence
Correlation Experiments
Single Photon Source
Wave Nature of a Single Photon
Uses of Single Photon Sources
Local Symmetries And Interactions of Photons
Introduction
Local Duality Invariance
Local Scale Invariance
Local Lorentz Invariance
Photon as a Composite Particle
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.12.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 81-309-1801-3 / 8130918013 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-309-1801-3 / 9788130918013 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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