Ettore Majorana : notes on theoretical physics /
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| Author / Creator: | Majorana, Ettore. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003. |
| Description: | xxv, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 133 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5046467 |
Table of Contents:
- Volumetto I
- 1. Electric potential
- 2. Retarded potential
- 3. Interaction energy of two electric or magnetic charge distributions
- 4. Skin effect in homogeneous cylindrical electric conductors
- 5. Thermodynamics of the thermoelectric cells
- 6. Energy of an isolated conductor
- 7. Attraction between masses which are far apart
- 8. Formulae
- 9. Electric lines
- 10. Density of a spherical mass distribution
- 11. Limit skin effect
- 12. Limit skin effect for simply-shaped conductors. Hints for arbitrary shapes
- 12.1. Elliptic cross sections
- 12.2. Effect of the irregularities of the boundary
- 13. Hysteresis in magnetic conductors in the limit skin effect regime
- 14. Field produced by a circular and homogeneous distribution of charges in its own plane
- 15. Field produced by a circular charge current in a plane
- 16. Weak skin effect in conductors, with an elliptic cross section, having the same magnetic permeability as the surrounding medium
- 17. Oscillating discharges in capacitors
- 18. Self-induction of a very long circular coil with many turns
- 19. Energy of a uniform circular distribution of electric or magnetic charges
- 20. Self-induction in a rectilinear coil with finite length
- 21. Mean distances of volume, surface, or line elements
- 22. Evaluation of some series
- 23. Self-induction of a finite length rectilinear coil with circular cross section and a finite (small) number of turns
- 24. Variation of the self-induction coefficient due to the skin effect
- 25. Mean error in estimating the probability of an event through a finite number of trails
- 26. Unbalance of a pure three-phase system
- 27. Table for computation of x!
- 28. Influence of a magnetic field on the melting point
- 29. Specific heat of an oscillator
- 30. Do children of the same parents tend to be of the same sex?
- 31. Heat propagation from a certain cross section along an infinite-length bar endowed with another cross section acting as a heat well. A similarity with the crickets
- 32. Combinations
- 33. Energy and specific heat of a rotator
- 34. Gravitational attraction of an ellipsoid
- 35. Special cases: prolate ellipsoid and spheroid
- 36. Equilibrium of a rotating fluid
- 37. Definite integrals
- 38. Heat propagation in an isotropic and homogeneous medium
- 38.1. One-dimensional propagation
- 39. Conformal transformations
- 40. Wave mechanics of a mass point in a conservative field. Variational approach
- 41. Electromagnetic mass of the electron
- 42. Legendre polynomials
- 43. [del][superscript 2] in spherical coordinates
- Volumetto II
- 1. [del][superscript 2] in cylindrical coordinates
- 2. Expansion of a harmonic function in a plane
- 3. Quantization of a linear harmonic oscillator
- 4. Diagonalization of a matrix
- 5. Wave quantization of a point particle that is attracted by a constant force towards a perfectly elastic wall
- 6. Relativistic hamiltonian for the motion of an electron
- 7. The Fermi function
- 8. The interatomic potential without statistics
- 9. Application of the Fermi potential
- 10. Statistical behavior of the fundamental terms in neutral atoms
- 11. Numbers to the fifth power
- 12. Diatomic molecule with identical nuclei
- 13. Numbers to the sixth power
- 14. Numbers of the seventh power
- 15. Second approximation for the potential inside the atom
- 16. Atomic polarizability
- 17. Fourier expansions and integrals
- 18. Blackbody
- 19. Radiation Theory (Part 1)
- 20. Moment of inertia of the Earth
- 21. Radiation Theory (Part 2)
- 22. About matrices
- 23. Radiation Theory (Part 3)
- 24. Perturbed keplerian motion in a plane
- 25. Radiation Theory (Part 4)
- 26. Definite integrals
- 27. Series expansions
- 28. Radiation Theory (Part 5): free electron scattering
- 29. De Broglie waves
- 30. e[superscript 2][actual symbol not reproducible]hc ?
- 31. The equation y[superscript "] + Py = 0
- 32. Indeterminacy of vector and scalar potentials
- 33. On the spontaneous ionization of a hydrogen atom placed in a high potential region
- 34. Scattering of an [alpha] particle by a radioactive nucleus.
