Materials, Matter And Particles : a Brief History.

This book traces the history of ideas about the nature of matter and also the way that mankind has used material resources that the world offers. Starting with the ideas of ancient civilizations that air, earth, fire and water were the basic ingredients of all matter, it traces the development of th...

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	World Scientific 2009.
Subjects:	Matter > History. Substance (Philosophy) Matter History
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Table of Contents:

Cover13;
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Elements of Nature
Chapter 2 Early Ideas of the Nature of Matter
Chapter 3 The Quest for Gold and Eternal Life
Chapter 4 The Beginning of Chemistry
4.1 The Chaos of Alchemy
4.2 Paracelsus and His Medicines
4.3 Robert Boyle, the Gentleman Scientist
Chapter 5 Modern Chemistry is Born
5.1 The Phlogiston Theory
5.2 Joseph Priestley
5.3 Antoine Lavoisier
Chapter 6 Nineteenth Century Chemistry
6.1 Chemistry Becomes Quantitative
6.2 John Dalton
6.3 Amedeo Avogadro
6.4 The Concept of Valency
6.5 Chemical Industry is Born
6.6 Bringing Order to the Elements
Chapter 7 Atoms Have Structure
7.1 Michael Faraday
7.2 The Nature of Cathode Rays
7.3 J.J. Thomson and the Electron
7.4 The Charge and Mass of the Electron
Chapter 8 Radioactivity and the Plum-Pudding Model
8.1 R246;ntgen and X-rays
8.2 Becquerel and Emanations from Uranium
8.3 The Curies and Radioactivity
8.4 Rutherford and the Nuclear Atom
Chapter 9 Some Early 20th Century Physics
9.1 The Birth of Quantum Physics
9.2 The Photoelectric Effect
9.3 Characteristic X-rays
Chapter 10 What is a Nucleus Made Of?
10.1 First Ideas on the Nature of the Nucleus
10.2 Moseleys Contribution to Understanding Atomic Numbers
10.3 Breaking Up the Nucleus
10.4 Another Particle is Found
Chapter 11 Electrons in Atoms
11.1 The Bohr Atom
11.2 Waves and Particles
11.3 The Bohr Theory and Waves
11.4 An Improvement of the Bohr Theory
Chapter 12 The New Mechanics
12.1 Schr246;dingers Wave Equation
12.2 The Wave Equation and Intuition
12.3 Orbits Become Orbitals
12.4 The Great Escape
12.5 Heisenberg and Uncertainty
Chapter 13 Electrons and Chemistry
13.1 Shells and the Periodic Table
13.2 Valency
Chapter 14 Electron Spin and the Exclusion Principle
14.1 The Stern8211;Gerlach Experiment
14.2 Electrons in a Spin
14.3 The Pauli Exclusion Principle
15 Isotopes
15.1 What is an Isotope?
15.2 The Stable Isotopes of Some Common Materials
Chapter 16 Radioactivity and More Particles
16.1 The Emission of 945; Particles
16.2 946; Emission
16.3 The Positron
16.4 Another Kind of 946; Emitter
16.5 The Elusive Particle 8212; The Neutrino
16.6 How Old is that Ancient Artefact?
16.7 An Interim Assessment of the Nature of Matter
Chapter 17 Making Atoms, Explosions and Power
17.1 The New Alchemy
17.2 Reactions with 945; Particles
17.3 Reactions with Protons
17.4 947;-ray Induced Reactions
17.5 Neutron Induced Reactions
17.6 Fission Reactions
17.7 The Atomic Bomb
17.8 Atomic Power
17.9 Fusion 8212; Better Power Production and Bigger Bombs
Chapter 18 Observing Matter on a Small Scale
18.1 Seeing
18.2 Microscopes
18.3 X-ray Diffraction from Crystals
Chapter 19 Living Matter
19.1 Defining Life
19.2 Forms of Life
Chapter 20 Life at the Atomic Level
20.1 Seeing Life Matter at the Atomic Level
20.2 Encoding Complex Structures
20.3 Encoding Living Matter 8212; The Chemistry of DNA
20.4 The Double Helix
20.5 What Makes Us How We Are?
20.6 The Artifici.

Materials, Matter And Particles : a Brief History.

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