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The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
"If it's a boy, he'll be a scientist" "what one fool can do, another can do better" Undergraduate at MIT arrival in Princeton as a graduate student action-at-a-distance in electrodynamics - the… Expand
The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics: (Boxed Set of 2 Volumes)
- J. Mehra
- Mathematics
- 1 February 2001
Temperature correction to the casimir effect
- J. Mehra
- Physics
- 1967
Abstract The temperature correction to the Casimir effect is calculated by applying statistical mechanics to a resonant cavity at finite temperature. Comparison is made with the macroscopic theory of… Expand
The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties 1900–1925
- J. Mehra, H. Rechenberg
- Physics
- 13 September 1982
I Quanta and Molecules: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein and Nernst.- I.1 The Law of Blackbody Radiation.- I.2 The Significance of the Constants in Planck's Law.- I.3 Fluctuations and… Expand
Physical reality and mathematical description
- J. M. Jauch, C. P. Enz, J. Mehra
- Mathematics
- 1974
I : Art, History and Philosophy.- Science and Art.- Leonard de Vinci et l'hydrodynamique.- Our knowledge of the external world.- Geometrie and Physik.- Quantum physics and process metaphysics.- What… Expand
Josiah Willard Gibbs and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
- J. Mehra
- Mathematics
- 1 December 1998
In this study, I discuss the development of the ideas of Josiah Willard Gibbs' Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics and the fundamental role they played in forming the modern concepts in… Expand
Einstein and the foundation of statistical mechanics
- J. Mehra
- Physics
- 1 March 1975
In three papers (1902–1904), Albert Einstein developed the essential principles of the statistical mechanical approach to thermodynamics before he was twenty-five years old. Einstein's work was… Expand
The formulation of matrix mechanics and its modifications, 1925-1926
- J. Mehra, H. Rechenberg
- Mathematics
- 1982
I The Rediscovery of a Mathematical Tool.- I.1 Max Born's Interpretation of Heisenberg's Quantum Condition.- I.2 The Development of Matrix Calculus.- I.3 Early Applications of Matrix Methods in… Expand