Molecular Diffraction of Light (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

C. V. Raman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332314821 ISBN 13 : 9781332314829

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how light dances with molecules and how this shapes what we see through refraction, scattering, and diffraction. This classic work connects the fundamental structure of matter with the way light propagates in gases, liquids, and solids. It explains why light loses intensity as it travels and how molecular motion and organization influence the color and clarity of the sky, seas, and materials.

- Understand the idea that molecules act as tiny secondary sources of radiation and how their arrangement affects scattered light.
- Learn how the attenuation and scattering of light relate to refractive index, density, and temperature.
- See how polarisation behaves in liquids versus gases and what that reveals about molecular orientation.
- Hear how these experiments sit at the crossroads of classical and quantum theories of light, and what that means for our view of light itself.

Ideal for readers of physics and chemistry who want a clear, historical, yet practical account of light and matter. This edition helps nonfiction readers grasp how modern ideas about diffraction, scattering, and the quantum view of light emerged from careful observation and calculation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Molecular Diffraction of Light

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere. It is proposed in this small volume to review the present position of the subject and to discuss the general theory of the molecular scattering of light in all refractive media, including in a comprehensive survey the case of gases, vapours, liquids, crystals and amorphous solids. Experimental observations in support of the theory are detailed, and reference is made to various phenomena in which molecular diffraction plays a part. The case of moving media is also briefly dealt with.

In the course of the work, references are made to cases in which the classical wave-theory apparently fails to explain the facts relating to molecular scattering in a satisfactory manner, and in the final chapter an attempt is made to consider these cases in terms of the conception introduced by Einstein in 1905 that light is not continuous wave-motion but consists of discrete quanta moving through space.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332314821
• ISBN 13: 9781332314829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 117
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