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Irreversibility and the failure of classical dynamics : Max Planck's work on the quantum theory, 1900-1915

Allan A. Needell

Published Jan 1, 1980• 52 citations
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The paper begins with a brief account of classical theory of radiation and its failure to explain black body radiation.It is followed by the introduction of Quantum Theory of radiation by Max Planck.The dual nature of matter by de Broglie has been extensively dealt with.The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg has been critically discussed by many eminent authors who finally concluded it as one of the unavoidable mysteries of nature.As a picture speaks thousand words and as face is the index of the mind, the author has added pictures of eminent physicists at appropriate places.The subject matter of the paper will form a good text for any graduate students of Physics.
From its very beginning, Quantum Theory developed contrary to the intentions of its creators. For Max Planck it marks the failure of a long-term research program, in which he tried to understand the 2nd law of thermodynamics deterministically in terms of mechanics and electrodynamics. For Albert Einstein it meant a refutation of his scientific credo. I describe parts of the early stages of this most remarkable development, up to Einstein's light-quantum hypotheis and its unfavourable reception by most other physicists.
This article discusses the history of quantum physics, beginning with an analysis of the process through which a community of quantum theorists and experimentalists came into being. In particular, it traces the roots and fruits of Max Planck’s papers in irreversible processes in nature. It proceeds by exploring the origin and subsequent development of Niels Bohr’s so-called ‘planetary model’ of the atom, focusing on the extension of the model by Arnold Sommerfeld and members of his school as well to Bohr’s use of his principles of correspondence and adiabatic invariance. It also considers the post-war years, as the problems of atomic spectroscopy sparked the development of new methodological approaches to quantum theory. Finally, it offers a history of the two distinct new forms of quantum mechanics put forward in the mid-1920s: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan’s matrix mechanics, and Erwin Schrödinger’s wave mechanics.