History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 25 (4/18/00)

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Topics   Discoveries   Prelude:  the cathode ray tube   X-rays (1895)   Radioactivity (1896)   The electron (1897)  Relativity   The special theory (1905)   The general theory (1915)   Consequences  Quanta   Planck and Einstein:  light quanta   Bohr's atom   Finally a quantum mechanics   Two routes   The Copenhagen Interpretation  New foundations for practice

Names and terms      cathode ray tube (CRT)   Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)   Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)   phosphorescence   Pierre (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934)   J.J. Thomson (1856-1940)   Albert Einstein (1879-1955)   space-time   non-Euclidean geometry   Max Planck (1858-1947)   continuous spectrum (blackbody spectrum)   Planck's constant h   light quanta (photons)   wave-particle duality   photoelectric effect   Niels Bohr (1885-1962)   discrete spectra (spectral lines)   Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)   Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)   Louis de Broglie (1892-1987)   Max Born (1882-1970)   uncertainty relations

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