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History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 22 (3/12/03)
Atomic physics
(Class 21 was the midterm exam.)
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What is atomic physics?
Why do atoms belong to physics anyways?
Rethinking inward bound
Atomic models
Empirical starting points: Constitution and construction
Early proposals
Nagaoka's (1904)
Thomson's (1904)
Rutherford's (1911)
A comment: The model-making tradition
Bohr's model (1913)
How Bohr came to Rutherford
A quantum theory of atomic
structure
What are the experimental
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Hantaro Nagaoka (1865-1950)
J. J. Thomson (1856-1940), NP 1906
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), NP Chemistry 1908
Niels Bohr (1885-1962), NP 1922
"On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (1913)
nonclassical stability condition |
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| Assignment |
No reading assignment! |
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