The tiger and the shark : empirical roots of wave-particle dualism / Bruce R. Wheaton ; with a foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn
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- Wheaton, Bruce R
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983
- xxiv, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0521358922
- 0521250986
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- Machine derived contents note: Foreword Thomas S. Kuhn
- Preface
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- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Introduction of Temporal Discontinuity, 1896-1905: 2. The electromagnetic impulse hypothesis of x-rays
- 3. The analogy between y-rays and x-rays
- Part II. Ionization and the Recognition of Paradox, 1906-1910: 4. Secondary rays: British attempts to retain mechanism
- 5. The appeal in Germany to the quantum theory
- Part III. Seeking an Electrodynamic Solution, 1907-1912: 6. Localized energy in spreading impulses
- 7. Problems with visible light
- Part IV. Interference of X-Rays and the Corrobation of Paradox, 1912-1922: 8. Origins of x-ray spectroscopy
- 9. Quantum transformation experiments
- Part V. The Conceptual Origins of Wave-Particle Dualism, 1921-1925: 10. Synthesis of matter and light
- Epilogue: The tiger and the shark
- Bibliography
- Index.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [309]-346.
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