Within the Atom A Popular View of Electrons and Quanta Classic Reprint

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This volume is intended for readers who wish to obtain a familiarity with the basis of modern physical science. Without mathematical formulation it deals with modern theories as to matter and energy, emphasizing the granular structure and electrical nature of matter, and the apparently corpuscular character of energy.

The reader need have no previous knowledge of electricity, mechanics, or chemistry. For the appreciation of the evidence of certain critical experiments upon which modern scientists base their belief in electrons and in quanta of energy some knowledge of electricity, however, is required. To supply this in a quick and easy manner, the usual historical order of presentation is abandoned and the correctness of modern theories is assumed at the start. There are postulated the electron and its counterpart, the proton. In terms of these there are then described those few phenomena of electricity which are essential to the later consideration of the evidence. In this way, it is hoped most rapidly to introduced the reader to modern theories as to the invisible workings of the physical universe.

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