The electron
by Robert Andrews Millikan
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About this eBook
- Author
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
- Title
- The electron, its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties
- Original Publication
- Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 1924.
- Credits
- Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Electrons
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 73297
- Release Date
- March 30, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.THE ELECTRON
- 5.Untitled
- 6.THE ELECTRON
- 7.Untitled
- 8.Untitled
- 9.PREFACE
- 10.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 11.CONTENTS
- 12.INTRODUCTION
- 13.CHAPTER I EARLY VIEWS OF ELECTRICITY
- 14.CHAPTER II THE EXTENSION OF THE ELECTROLYTIC LAWS TO CONDUCTION IN GASES
- 15.CHAPTER III EARLY ATTEMPTS AT THE DIRECT DETERMINATION OF — TABLE I — TABLE IIa SERIES 1 (BALANCED POSITIVE WATER DROPS) — TABLE IIb SERIES 2 (BALANCED POSITIVE WATER DROPS) — TABLE III
- 16.CHAPTER IV GENERAL PROOF OF THE ATOMIC NATURE OF ELECTRICITY — TABLE IV — TABLE V — TABLE VI — TABLE VII — TABLE VIII
- 17.CHAPTER V THE EXACT EVALUATION OF — TABLE IX — TABLE X — TABLE XI
- 18.CHAPTER VI THE MECHANISM OF IONIZATION OF GASES BY X-RAYS AND RADIUM RAYS — TABLE XII — Table XIII
- 19.CHAPTER VII BROWNIAN MOVEMENTS IN GASES — TABLE XIV
- 20.CHAPTER VIII IS THE ELECTRON ITSELF DIVISIBLE?
- 21.CHAPTER IX THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM — TABLE XV
- 22.CHAPTER X THE NATURE OF RADIANT ENERGY
- 23.APPENDIX A FROM MOBILITIES AND DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS
- 24.APPENDIX B TOWNSEND’S FIRST ATTEMPT AT A DETERMINATION OF
- 25.APPENDIX C THE BROWNIAN-MOVEMENT EQUATION
- 26.APPENDIX D THE INERTIA OR MASS OF AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE ON A SPHERE OF RADIUS
- 27.APPENDIX E MOLECULAR CROSS-SECTION AND MEAN FREE PATH
- 28.APPENDIX F NUMBER OF FREE POSITIVE ELECTRONS IN THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM BY RUTHERFORD’S METHOD
- 29.APPENDIX G BOHR’S THEORETICAL DERIVATION OF THE VALUE OF THE RYDBERG CONSTANT
- 30.APPENDIX H A. H. COMPTON’S THEORETICAL DERIVATION OF THE CHANGE IN THE WAVE-LENGTH OF ETHER-WAVES BECAUSE OF SCATTERING BY FREE ELECTRONS
- 31.APPENDIX I THE ELEMENTS, THEIR ATOMIC NUMBERS, ATOMIC WEIGHTS, AND CHEMICAL POSITIONS
- 32.FOOTNOTES:
- 33.INDEX OF AUTHORS
- 34.INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- 35.PRINTED IN THE U.S.A
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