Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics
Academic Press
Published on 4. July 1980
492 pages
978-0-08-057715-9 (ISBN)
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Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics
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Ladislaus Marton | C. Marton
Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics: v. 50
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05/1980
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- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors to Volume 50
- Publisher's Foreword
- Foreword
- Articles to Appear in Future Volumes
- Chapter 1. Early History of Particle Accelerators
- I. Introduction
- II. Origins of Accelerators
- III. Direct Voltage Accelerators
- IV. Resonance Acceleration
- V. The Betatron
- VI. Synchronous Accelerators
- VII. Linear Accelerators
- VIII. Alternating Gradient Accelerators
- IX. Storage Rings and Colliding Beams
- References
- Chapter 2. Sixty Years of Electronics
- I. Introduction
- II. Prewar Achievements
- III. Developments and Seeds Sown during World War II
- IV. Postwar Development
- V. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Thermoelectricity
- I. A New Phenomenon
- II. William Thomson
- III. Experimental Tests of Thermodynamics
- IV. Microscopic Theories
- V. The Experimental Evidence
- VI. Electron Theories
- VII. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Ferdinand Braun: Forgotten Forefather
- Text
- References
- Chapter 5. From the Flat Earth to the Topology of Space-Time
- I. From the Flat Earth to the Spherical Earth
- II. The Earth in Three-Dimensional Space
- III. From Euclidean to Non-Euclidean Geometry
- IV. Metric and Differential Geometry
- V. Physical Space-Time
- VI. Information Theory Applied to Measurements
- VII. Discrete Coordinate Systems
- VIII. Distance in Multidimensional Discrete Coordinate Systems
- IX. Three Time Dimensions and One Space Dimension
- X. Dyadic Metric
- XI. Standing Waves Characterize Topology
- XII. Dyadic Coordinate Systems
- XIII. Motion Based on Integer-Number and Dyadic Topology
- XIV. Current Developments
- References
- Chapter 6. History of Noise Research
- I. Introduction
- II. Early Noise Work
- III. Fourier Theorem and Spectral Analysis
- IV. Noise in Amplifying and Detecting Devices
- References
- Chapter 7. Power Electronics at General Electric: 1900-1941
- I. The Prehistory of Electronics at G.E.
- II. Vacuum Tube Electronics: 1913-1930
- III. Gas Tube Electronics: 1922-1930
- IV. Industrial and Military Electronics: 1930-1941
- References
- Chapter 8. Evolution of the Concept of the Elementary Charge
- Text
- Appendix: The Meaning of "Discovery" and of "Discoverer
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
