PREFACE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS OF DR. E. HUND'S ATOMIC AND QUANTUM THEORY

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PREFACE AND TAELE OF CONTENTS OF DR F. RUND'S
ATOMIC A?m ---UM THEORY
[Comment: Or Friedrich Rund was born in 1896. In 1927, while
an assistant at the University of Goettingea, he was invited as
associate professor to Rostock University and was promoted to full
professor the next year. From 1929 to 1946 he occupied the chair
of mathematical physics at the University of Leipzig; from 1946
to the present he has lectured on theoretical physics at the
University of Jena. He is a well-known specialist in solid-state
and nuclear physics. In 1951 he completed his fifth and last vol-
ume of a series entitled "Einfuehrung in die theoretische Physik"
(Introduction to Theoretical Physics). This firth volume, "Atom-
und Quantentheorie" (Atomic and Quantum Theory), was published in
Leipzig, 1951, 314 pages.
The preface and table of contents of the book follow.)
With this Sifth ,olume entitled "Atomic and Quantum Theory," the "Intro-
duction to Theoretical Physics" should be considered as terminated. The study
has been limited to that of the atom, the quantum theory, and the science of
the building-up of matter. The purpose was to provide subject matter for the
physicist who is not a specialist in quantum theory and in the building-up of
matter.
Therefore, the statements of this volume should lead to a general con-
ception of quantum mechanics, well founded and suitable for further applications;
with this aim in mind, Schr oedinger's equation was selected. We understand,
therefore, by quantum theory the totality of concepts and statements expressing
the limitations of the classical particle viewpoint and that of a distinct field,
as far as particle and field are parts of matter. For many applications and, in
particular, for the atomic structure, full knowledge of quantum theory is not re-
quired. The applications (spectra, periodic system of elements) are represented
in Rutherford's atomic model, modified by the irmaterial transitions of the cor-
respondence principle.
Where systematic representation and accuracy of argumentation in the concept
of a beginning physicist seem to me controversial, I did my best in trying to
grasp the aims of the beginner. I also intended to write an introduction to more
competent and better representations of the quantum theory. Among those published
soon after the clarification of theoretical quantum concepts I may cite the fol-
lowing books: W. Heisenberg, "Die physikalische Prinzipien der Quantentheorie"
(The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory), Leipzig, 1930 -- still a most
valuable work on the duality of wave and corpuscle; and the book by P. A. M.
Dirac, "Die Prinzipien der Quantenmechanik" (Principles of Quantum Mechanics),
Leipzig, 1930 -- an accurate and comprehensive study. A more recent successful
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attempt to combine clarity and comprehensiveness is H. A. Kramer's book "Die
Grundlagen der Quantentheorie and Quantentheorie des Elektrons and der
Strahlung" (Fundamentals of the Quantum Theory and the Quantum Theory of the
Electron and of Radiation), Leipzig, 1938. Finally, the valuable and im-
peccable introduction into the mathematical mastery of the quantum mechanical
problems: A. Sommerfeld, "Atombau and Spektrallinien" (Atomic Structure and
Spectral Lines), Vol 2, Braunschweig, 1939.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Atomic Structure of Matter
II. Failure of the Classical Theory to Explain Radiation and the Energy
Content of Matter
III. Failure of the Classical Theory to Explain the Atomic Structure
IV. Quantum Theory Based on the Correspondence Principle
V. Particles of Light
VI. Material Waves
VII. Relativistic Treatment of the Material Field
VIII. Quantum Mechanics of the Single Particle System
IX. Quantum Mechanics of the Multiple Particle System
Scientific Appendices
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