Waynflete Lectures on Physics [1 ed.] 0080291473
Waynflete Lecture delivered by great physicist, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, in 1982. Orig
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English Pages 144 Year 1983
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Table of contents :
Chapter 1 KEY PROBLEMS IN PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
1. Introduction and list of problems
2. Macrophysics
3. Microphysics
4. A few remarks about the nature of scientific revolutions in physics and astronomy
Chapter 2 THE PROBLEM OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
1. Introduction and statement of the problem
2. What determines the value of the critical temperature T_c ?
3. Ways of producing high-temperature superconductors
4. Is there a real possibility to increase T_c using exciton mechanism
5. Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 3 COSMIC RAY ASTRONOMY
1. Introduction
2. Cosmic rays and cosmic electromagnetic radiation
3. Origin of the main part of the cosmic rays observed at the Earth
4. Galactic model with a halo
5. The perspectives for the development of cosmic ray astropysics
References
Chapter 4 RADIATION BY A UNIFORMLY MOVING CHARGE (CHERENKOV EFFECT, TRANSITION RADIATION, AND RELATED PHENOMENA)
1. Introduction
2. The Cherenkov effect
3. The Quantum theory of the Cherenkov effect
4. The Quantum theory of the Doppler effect in a medium
5. Transition radiation
6. Transition scattering - Transition Bremmstrahlung
7. Concluding remarks
References
Index
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