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Description:This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907 95), including the Peierls Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235. His papers range widely in topic. They include much on the fundamentals of solid state physics, the thermal and electric conductivity of materials as a function of temperature "T" (especially "T" 0), the interpretation of the de Haas van Alphen effect observed for a metal in a magnetic field, and the basics of transport theory. Many are on problems in statistical mechanics, including his constructive paper demonstrating the existence of a phase transition for Ising's model for a two-dimensional ferromagnet. In nuclear physics, they include the first calculations (with Bethe) on the photo-disintegration of the deuteron (made in response to a challenge by Chadwick), the Kapur Peierls theory of resonance phenomena in nuclear reactions, the Bohr Peierls Placzek continuum model for complex nuclei (which first explained the narrow resonances observed for low energy neutrons incident on very heavy nuclei), and the Peierls Thouless variational approach to collective phenomena in nuclei. Several of Peierls's wartime papers, now declassified, are here published for the first time.Brief commentaries on most of the papers in this book were added by Peierls, to indicate subsequent developments and their relationship with other work, or to correct errors found later on. A complete bibliography of his writings is given as an appendix.Contents: Theory of the Hall EffectKinetic Theory of Thermal Conduction in Crystals: Theory of Electric and Thermal Conductivity of MetalsTheory of the Diamagnetism of Conduction ElectronsQuantum Theory of the Diplon (Deuteron)Ising's Model of FerromagnetismDispersion Formula for Nuclear ReactionsCritical Conditions for Neutron MultiplicationThe Peierls Frisch Memorandum of 1940Commutation Laws of Relativistic Field TheoryField Equations in Functional FormCollective Model of Nuclear MotionTwo-Stage Model of Fermi InteractionsComplex Eigenvalues in Scattering TheoryResonance States and Their UsesMomentum and Pseudomomentum of Light and SoundBroken Symmetriesand other papersReadership: Nuclear, condensed matter and theoretical physicists."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls: With Commentary. To get started finding Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls: With Commentary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 831

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Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1299663346

Description: This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907 95), including the Peierls Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235. His papers range widely in topic. They include much on the fundamentals of solid state physics, the thermal and electric conductivity of materials as a function of temperature "T" (especially "T" 0), the interpretation of the de Haas van Alphen effect observed for a metal in a magnetic field, and the basics of transport theory. Many are on problems in statistical mechanics, including his constructive paper demonstrating the existence of a phase transition for Ising's model for a two-dimensional ferromagnet. In nuclear physics, they include the first calculations (with Bethe) on the photo-disintegration of the deuteron (made in response to a challenge by Chadwick), the Kapur Peierls theory of resonance phenomena in nuclear reactions, the Bohr Peierls Placzek continuum model for complex nuclei (which first explained the narrow resonances observed for low energy neutrons incident on very heavy nuclei), and the Peierls Thouless variational approach to collective phenomena in nuclei. Several of Peierls's wartime papers, now declassified, are here published for the first time.Brief commentaries on most of the papers in this book were added by Peierls, to indicate subsequent developments and their relationship with other work, or to correct errors found later on. A complete bibliography of his writings is given as an appendix.Contents: Theory of the Hall EffectKinetic Theory of Thermal Conduction in Crystals: Theory of Electric and Thermal Conductivity of MetalsTheory of the Diamagnetism of Conduction ElectronsQuantum Theory of the Diplon (Deuteron)Ising's Model of FerromagnetismDispersion Formula for Nuclear ReactionsCritical Conditions for Neutron MultiplicationThe Peierls Frisch Memorandum of 1940Commutation Laws of Relativistic Field TheoryField Equations in Functional FormCollective Model of Nuclear MotionTwo-Stage Model of Fermi InteractionsComplex Eigenvalues in Scattering TheoryResonance States and Their UsesMomentum and Pseudomomentum of Light and SoundBroken Symmetriesand other papersReadership: Nuclear, condensed matter and theoretical physicists."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls: With Commentary. To get started finding Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls: With Commentary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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