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Physics Textbooks Don’t Always Tell the Truth
Physics in Perspective ( IF 0.4 ) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s00016-016-0178-z
Allan Franklin

Anyone who studies the history of physics quickly realizes that the history presented in physics textbooks is often inaccurate. I will discuss three episodes from the history of modern physics: (1) Robert Millikan’s experiments on the photoelectric effect, (2) the Michelson-Morley experiment, and (3) the Ellis-Wooster experiment on the energy spectrum in β decay. Everyone knows that Millikan’s work established the photon theory of light and that the Michelson-Morley experiment was crucial in the genesis of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The problem is that what everyone knows is wrong. Neither experiment played the role assigned to it by physics textbooks. The Ellis-Wooster experiment, on the other hand, is rarely discussed in physics texts, but it should be. It led to Wolfgang Pauli’s suggestion of the neutrino. I will present a more accurate history of these three experiments than those given in physics texts.

中文翻译:

物理教科书并不总是说实话

任何研究过物理学史的人都会很快意识到,物理学教科书中介绍的历史往往是不准确的。我将讨论现代物理学史上的三个片段:(1)罗伯特·密立根的光电效应实验,(2)迈克尔逊-莫雷实验,以及(3)关于 β 衰变能谱的埃利斯-伍斯特实验。众所周知,密立根的工作建立了光的光子理论,而迈克尔逊-莫雷实验对阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦狭义相对论的起源至关重要。问题是每个人都知道是错误的。这两个实验都没有起到物理教科书赋予它的作用。另一方面,Ellis-Wooster 实验很少在物理课本中讨论,但它应该是。这导致了沃尔夫冈泡利关于中微子的建议。
更新日期:2016-04-01
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