Author(s): O. P. Spiridonov
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1986
Language: English
City: Moscow
Front Cover
Title Page
PREFACE
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE Milestones of Physics
FIRST STORY Strength and Weaknessof a Giant or the Tale of Gravitational Constant
GRAVITATION
GRANDEUR OF GENIUS
GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT
“THERE IS NOT A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTS”
SECOND STORY Lives of Hardship or the Tale of Avogadro's and Boltzmann's Constants
TRUTH FORESEEN
THE ARCHITECT OF HARMONY
HOW ARE ATOMS COUNTED?
THIRD STORY Guiding Star or the Tale of the Charge and Mass of the Electron
COMPLETED THEORY OF... UNKNOWN
DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON (ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS)
NOBEL PRIZE TO EVERY STUDENT
THE TROUBLESOME MASS
FOURTH STORY The Puzzle or the Tale of the Speed of Light
HAVE YOU EVER SOLVED PUZZLES?
A VICTIMLESS DUEL
IS THE SPEED OF LIGHT CONSTANT?
MICHELSON DISAGREES WITH PUSHKIN
THE WORLD OF ALBERT EINSTEIN
SPACE FULL OF LIFE
FIFTH STORY Mysterious Messenger from Real Worldor the Tale of Planck's Constant
AD HOC HYPOTHESIS (THE EMERGENCE OF PLANCK’S CONSTANT)
EINSTEIN’S LIGHT QUANTA
“HIGHEST FORM OF MUSICALITY IN THE SPHERE OF THOUGHT”
WAVES OF MATTER
THE MEASURE OF UNCERTAINTY
ELECTRON SPIN
SIXTH STORY Jig-saw in Earnest or the Tale of the Masses of the Proton, Neutron and Other ElementaryParticles
HOW TO DISASSEMBLE AN ATOMIC NUCLEUS?
“WEIGHING” ENERGY
THREE DIFFERENT SIMILAR DISCOVERIES
AT THE FRONTIER OF KNOWLEDGE
EPILOGUE An Endless Road
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