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Atoms, molecules, and quanta

Title
Atoms, molecules, and quanta / by Arthur Edward Ruark and Harold Clayton Urey.
Author
Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-1979
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1930.

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Additional Authors
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
Description
xvii, 790 pages : illustrations, diagrams; 24 cm
Series Statement
International series in physics
Uniform Title
International series in physics
Subject
  • Quantum theory
  • Spectrum analysis
  • Atoms
  • Molecules
  • 33.31 atomic and molecular electronic-structure theory
  • Quantentheorie
  • Atomphysik
  • Molekülphysik
  • Atoomfysica
  • Molecuulfysica
  • Kwantummechanica
  • Spectrometrie
  • Théorie quantique
  • Spectroscopie
  • Atomes
  • Molécules
  • Atomphysik
  • Quantentheorie
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • "References" at end of most of the chapters; Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Introductory -- The elementary constituents of atoms -- The foundations of the quantum theory and their experimental justification -- Review of dynamical principles -- Hydrogenic atoms and their spectra -- General theorems of the older quantum theory -- Introduction to optical spectra -- X-rays and X-ray spectra -- The periodic system of the elements -- General theory of atomic spectra -- Special topics in spectroscopy -- Molecular spectra -- Critical potentials of atoms and molecules -- Collisions of the second kind -- Wave mechanics -- Hydrogenic atoms in wave mechanics -- Matrix mechanics -- General theory of quantum dynamics -- Non-hydrogenic atoms and molecules in the new mechanics -- Spectral intensities -- Diffraction of electrons and atoms by crystals -- Appendices: 1. Relations between average kinetic and potential energies -- 2. Quantum integrals -- 3. Phase velocity and group velocity -- 4. Normal orthogonal functions used in wave mechanics -- 5. Methods for determining characteristic energy values -- 6. Applications of the calculus of variations to wave mechanics -- 7. The wave equation in curvilinear coordinates -- 8. Useful theorems of electrodynamics -- 9. Physical constants and conversion factors.
LCCN
30005709
OCLC
  • ocm01296377
  • 1296377
  • SCSB-388496
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library