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EINSTEIN AND SPECIFIC HEATS 399 which he acknowledged the quantum theory in his publications. His newly aroused interest in the ...

400 THE QUANTUM THEORY References Al. A. Avogadro, Ann. Chim. Phys. 55, 80 (1833), especially pp. 96-8. Bl. U. Behn, AdP 48, 708 ...

EINSTEIN AND SPECIFIC HEATS 401 N6. , PAW, 1911, p. 65. N7. and F. Lindemann, PAW,\9l\,p. 494. N8. , Z. Elektrochem. 20, 397 (19 ...

21 The Photon 2 la. The Fusion of Particles and Waves and Einstein's Destiny I now continue the tale of the light-quantum, a sub ...

THE PHOTON 403 this result to energy fluctuations of blackbody radiation in a frequency interval between v and v + dv. In order ...

404 THE QUANTUM THEORY Equation 21.5 suggests (loosely speaking) that the particle and wave aspects of radiation occur side by s ...

THE PHOTON 405 It was known at that time that one can obtain Planck's expression for p by introducing the quantum prescription* ...

The A coefficient corresponds to spontaneous transitions m —» n, which occur with a probability that is independent of the spect ...

THE PHOTON 407 v (and h). It is a compatibility condition. Its physical content is this: in order that Eqs. 21.7 and 21.8 may le ...

408 THE QUANTUM THEORY October 1927 the fifth Solvay conference was held. Its subject was 'electrons et photons.' When Einstein ...

THE PHOTON 409 The parallels between Eqs. 21.5 and 21.17 are striking. The respective first terms dominate if hv/kT S> 1, the ...

410 THE QUANTUM THEORY Technically, the following issue arises. If a molecule emits or absorbs an amount e of radiative energy a ...

THE PHOTON 411 Besso about the needle rays, he wrote, 'Damit sind die Lichtquanten so gut wie gesichert' [E13].* And, in a phras ...

412 THE QUANTUM THEORY understood as yet' [E15]. It is believed by nearly all of us that the joke was under- stood soon after 19 ...

Why were these elementary equations not published five or even ten years earlier, as well they could have been? Even those oppos ...

414 THE QUANTUM THEORY within the error.* The quality of the experiment is well demonstrated by the value he obtained for the Co ...

THE PHOTON 415 El. A. Einstein, letter to J. Laub, undated, 1908. Quoted in Se, p. 103. E2. , Phys. Zeitschr. 10, 185 (1909). E3 ...

22 Interlude: The BKS Proposal Sie haben sich heiss und innig geliebt. Helen Dukas In January 1924, Niels Bohr, Hendrik Anton Kr ...

INTERLUDE: THE BKS PROPOSAL 417 like an extremely sensitive child who moves around in this world in a sort of trance' [E4]. The ...

418 THE QUANTUM THEORY of the properties of interaction between radiation and matter. The BKS proposal represents the extreme ex ...