Book:M. Russell Wehr/Physics of the Atom/Fourth Edition

M. Russell Wehr, James A. Richards, Jr. and Thomas W. Adair, III: Physics of the Atom (4th Edition)

Published $\text {1984}$, Narosa Publishing House

ISBN 81-85015-60-0

Subject Matter

• Atomic Physics

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1: The Atomic View of Matter

2: The Atomic View of Electricity

3: The Atomic View of Radiation

4: The Atomic Models of Rutherford and Bohr

5: Relativity

6: X-Rays

7: Waves and Particles

8: Quantum Mechanics

9: The Atomic View of Solids

10: Natural Radioactivity

11: Nuclear Reactions and Artificial Radioactivity

12: Nuclear Energy

13: High-Energy Physics

Appendixes

Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems

Suggested Exercises

Index

Further Editions

• 1967: M. Russell Wehr, James A. Richards, Jr. and Thomas W. Adair, III: Physics of the Atom