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By M. Strauss

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In identifying the papers for this quantity i've got excluded all physics papers right. i've got extra passed over all ebook rev.iews. as a substitute, i've got incorporated papers no longer released formerly; they're marked by means of an asterisk (*) within the desk of contents. considering a number of the papers have been occasioned via Symposia or related gatherings their chronological order is very unintentional. consequently i've got attempted to staff the papers thematically into 4 components. inside of each one half the order of series is from the extra basic to the extra specified, or from a extra renowned to a extra technical therapy. an analogous precept has been utilized to the sequential order of the elements. The foundational papers on quantum mechanics were prepared in a a bit of dif­ ferent demeanour. Chapters XVI-XIX are taken with the good judgment of complementarity whereas in Chapters XX-XXII a extra radical recon­ ceptualization is performed. of the older papers (Chapters VI and VIII) were revised to deliver them extra into line with current terminology. different papers were corrected by means of additions and omissions. Additions are marked by means of sq. brackets [ ], whereas double sq. brackets [[ II characterize omis­ sions or components to be passed over. as a result [[A]] [B] signifies that 'A' can be changed by way of 'B'. The heading of 1 paper (Chapter XX) has been replaced to make it extra descriptive.

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2 At what time Planck became acquainted with the work of GIBBS 3 is not precisely known. Anyhow, a reference to Gibbs' work can be found MAX PLANCK AND THE RISE OF QUANTUM THEORY 25 not only in his 1883 paper on the thermodynamic equilibrium of gas mixtures 4, but already in a previous paper 5 which was finished in December, 1881. , the question whether Planck had any knowledge of Rayleigh's 1900 paper when establishing his radiation law by the famous 'interpolation', or whether he used then only the experimental results obtained by Kurlbaum and Rubens.

Planck was fully a ware of this fundamental difference: Das Prinzip der Unordnung. auf wclchem jede Art der IrreversibiIitaet zu beruhen scheint, liegt bei der Gastheorie in einem ganz anderen Moment als bei der Waermestrahlung. In den Gasen sind es die zahlreichen ponderablen Molecuele, welche durch die Unregclmaessigkeit ihrer Lage und Geschwindigkeit die Unordnung bedingen: im durchstrahlten Vacuum dagegen sind es die zahlreichen Strahlenbuendel, welche durch ihre unregelmaessig wechselnde Schwingungszahl und Intensitaet zur Bildung der Entropie Veranlassung geben.

IV The most interesting conclusion arrived at by Planck in the course of these investigations however concerns the statistical character - or, to use Planck's expression, the natural disorder - of thermal radiation itself. The [somewhat involved and strange] story of this is as follows. MAX PLANCK AND THE RISE OF QUANTUM THEORY 29 As already mentioned above, Planck had hoped that in a consistent application of Maxwell's theory the interaction between a [material] oscillator and the radiation field would tum out automatically to be irreversible.

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