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The Mechanical Universe 49
The Atom |
A history of the atom, from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century, and a new challenge for the world of physics.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02505 G Ultimate Constituents Of Matter
3 05940 H Bohr Model Of The Hydrogen Atom
4 07093 A Circular Planetary And Atomic Orbits
5 08594 A Elliptical Planetary And Atomic Orbits
6 09614 A Atomic Orbits; Energy Budgets
7 11129 A Energy Transitions In Atoms
8 12224 H Historical Development Of Atomic Theory
9 14459 A Law Of Simple And Multiple Proportions
10 15629 H Avogadro's Number
11 16304 A Avogadro's Number
12 16989 H Size Of Atoms
13 17864 A Microscopic View Of Diffusion
14 18819 A Balmer Series And Rydberg's Formula
15 21859 H Discovery Of The Electron
16 22549 E Thompson's Apparatus
17 24059 A Plum Pudding Model Of The Atom
18 24589 A Discovery Of The Nucleus
19 28993 A Circular Planetary And Atomic Orbits
20 30338 A Ultraviolet Catastrophe
21 31408 H Downfall Of The Rutherford Atom
22 32118 E Spectroscopy
23 32488 P Max Planck And Energy Quantization
24 33537 A Energy Quantization In The H Atom
25 34872 A Angular Momentum Quantization In The H Atom
26 37169 A Quantization Of Orbits In The H Atom
27 38917 A Relation Of Spectroscopy To Atomic Orbits
28 39687 A Rydberg Constant And Fundamental Constants
29 41827 H Newton To Bohr
30 43362 G Models, Theories, And Imagination
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007