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Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Langer, Rudolph M.
URN	etd-03262004-134242
Persistent URL	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-03262004-134242
Title	The hydrogen atom
Degree	PhD
Option	Physics
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title R.A. Millikan Committee Chair
Keywords	none
Date of Defense	1927-01-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. A critical examination of dispersion theory indicates that a measurement of the refractive index of atomic hydrogen is important for the theory of matter. Such an experiment is fully described and discussed. The result is that [...]. Incidentally it is found that a partial pressure of half a millimeter of atomic hydrogen can be had in a discharge tube while the discharge is on. Thermal conditions in such tubes are discussed and investigated. The experimental result is at first sight not in support of the new quantum mechanics which requires [...]. However, by assuming that [...] is connected with volume, in the kinetic theory sense it turns out that the expectation from the theory is effectively [...]. This leads support to the physical reality of the quantity [...] and leads to a prediction of an increase in refractivity at very low pressures for almost any gas. Pictures are given of the normal hydrogen atom and also its excited states and of the configuration under the action of a light waves
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