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P. Zeeman

 
9781332315642: Researches in Magneto-Optics: With Special Reference to the Magnetic Resolution of Spectrum Lines (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

A rigorous study of how magnetic fields split and shift spectral lines, revealing subtle dissymmetries in magneto‑optic effects.

This classic work presents the author’s long series of experiments in magneto‑optics, focusing on how magnetic fields influence the resolution of spectrum lines. It blends detailed measurement with careful analysis, offering clear insights into the behavior of light under magnetism. The text discusses experimental setups, observed phenomena, and the interpretation of results within the evolving theory of magnetic resolution.


  • How magnetic fields alter line positions and intensities, including dissymmetries in triplets and quadruplets

  • Experimental methods using etalons, vacuum tubes, and flame spectra to probe the Zeeman effect

  • Comparisons of experimental data with theoretical models, including Voigt’s and related approaches

  • Connections to broader magneto‑optical concepts like rotation of polarization and magnetic double refraction



Ideal for readers with an interest in physics and the history of magneto‑optics, this edition illuminates foundational experiments and their lasting impact on the field.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Researches in Magneto-Optics: With Special Reference to the Magnetic Resolution of Spectrum Lines

In the spring of 1906 I had the honour to deliver before the Royal Institution of Great Britain a lecture "On Recent Progress in Magneto-optics." A distinguished astronomer told me two or three years later that he had read the account of this lecture several times over. I have no doubt that his remark was meant as a compliment, but it signified also a too condensed exposition of the subject. At about the same time came the proposal of the Editor of this series of monographs to supplement my discourse and to give an expansion of it in book form. Consideration of the two communications, both acting in the same direction, easily induced me to prepare the present volume.

A few historical facts in the history of the relations between magnetism and light may be recalled here.

Faraday's fundamental discovery of the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarisation of light propagated parallel to the magnetic field dates from 1845.

In 1877 Kerr showed that a magnetisation of an iron mirror modifies the properties of incident plane polarised light. In 1896 and 1897 the present author discovered the resolution of the spectrum lines of a source of light when under the influence of strong magnetic fields.

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