Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Eight Lectures on Theoretical PhysicsIn 1909 the great German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Planck (18581947) delivered a series of eight lectures at Columbia University giving a fascinating overview of the new state of physics, which he had played a crucial role in bringing about. The first, third, fifth, and sixth lectures present his account of the revolutionary developments occasioned when he first applied the quantum hypothesis to blackbody radiation. The reader is given a

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