Michael Kidger's atomic physics notes /

This book shows Michael Kidger's early work while he was a student at Imperial College London before becoming a world-renowned, highly sought-after lecturer of optical design throughout the world. Michael's course notes on atomic physics, in his own handwriting, show an extraordinary atten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kidger, Michael J. (Author)
Other Authors:	Kidger, Tina E. (Editor), Dainty, Chris (Editor), Moore, Emery L. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bellingham, Washington : SPIE Press, [2024].
Series:	SPIE Press monograph ; PM376.
Subjects:	Kidger, Michael J. Atomic theory. Nuclear physics. Optics.

Table of Contents:

Preface / by Chris Dainty
Michael J. Kidger Biography / by Tina E. Kidger
1) The conduction of electricity through gases
2) Electric Discharge through gasses at low pressures
3) The Charge and Mass of the Electron
4) Positive Rays and the Brass Spectrograph
5) The Quantum Theory
6) The Thermionic Effect
7) Photo-Electricity
8) Atomic Spectra and the Periodic Table
9) X-Rays and their properties
10) The Structures of Crystals
11) The Wave Mechanics
12) Electron Collisions in Gases
13) Radioactivity and the Radioactivity Transformations
14) The Alpha particle
15) The Beta rays
16) The Gamma rays
17) The Detection of Single Atomic Particles
18) Cosmic Radiation: The Position
19) Mesons
20) High Energy Particle Accelerators
21) The Nucleus of the Atom
22) The Neutron
23) Nuclear Fission
24) Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactors
25) The Relativity Theory
Epilogue / by Emery L. Moore.