BIBLIOGRAPHY

NEW BOOKS*

G. BETHE. Quantum Mechanics of the Simplest Systems. Translated from the German by K. K. Fedchenko, edited by N. L. Pisarenko. Leningrad–Moscow, ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 339 pp., with illustrations and graphs. 14,000 copies. (7 rub. 50 kopecks + 1 rub. for binding).

The entire focus of the book is on the computational quantum mechanics of systems with one and two electrons, either isolated or subjected to various external influences. The principles of quantum mechanics are assumed to be known and are not discussed at all. The results of calculations are subjected to detailed discussion and compared with experimental data.

Max BORN. Modern Physics. Translated from the German by G. A. Kotlyar, edited by L. E. Gurevich. Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 262 + (1) pp., with illustrations, drawings, and graphs. 7,000 copies. 4 rub. 75 kopecks + 1 rub. for binding. Original title page in German.

P. BRIDGMAN. Physics of High Pressures. Translated from the English by Prof. M. P. Volarovich. Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Disciplines and Nomography, 1935, 402 pp., with illustrations, drawings, and graphs + (1) p. of advertisements. 5,000 copies. 7 rub. 60 kopecks + 1 rub. for binding.

Bibliography: “Literature” (at the end of individual chapters). List of P. V. Bridgman’s works devoted to high pressures (55 titles on pp. 394–397).

The book provides a summary of the author’s research in the field of high pressures over the last twenty-five years, work which already at the present time may be ranked among the classic works of experimental physics.

LOUIS DE BROGLIE. The Magnetic Electron (Dirac’s Theory). Translated from the French by P. I. Silakov. Edited by E. M. Lifshitz. Kharkov, ONTI—DNTVU, 1936 (actually 1935), 235 + (4) pp. 3,500 copies. 4 rub. 35 kopecks + 1 rub. for binding. Original title page in French.

N. T. KALITA. Radium. Kyiv–Kharkiv. ONTI—DNTVU, 1935, 64 pp., with illustrations and drawings. 3,000 copies. 1 rub. Bibliography: “Literature” (p. 63).

M. I. KORSUNSKII. The Neutron. Leningrad–Moscow, ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 224 pp., with illustrations, drawings, diagrams, and graphs. (Problems of Modern Physics, issue XXXI). 3,000 copies. 2 rub. 75 kopecks. Bibliography: “Literature” (pp. 214–224).

P. I. LUKIRSKII. The Neutron. Leningrad–Moscow, ONTI, Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 92 pp., with drawings and graphs. (Problems of Modern Physics, issue XXX). 3,000 copies. 1 rub. 50 kopecks. Bibliography: “Literature” (pp. 90–91).

OSTWALD–LUTHER–DRUCKER. Physico-Chemical Measurements. Translated from the German edition, edited by A. I. Rabinovich, A. V. Rakovskii, P. A. Rebinder, and E. V. Shpolskii. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Part II, Leningrad, ONTI, Khimteoret, 1935, part II, 828 pp. + 3 inserted sheets. 3,000 copies. 7 rub. + 1 rub. for binding. Bibliography: in footnotes. Original title page in German.

Contents. Electrical measurements. General technical instructions; electromotive force; electrical conductivity of electrolytes; use of electron tubes in physico-chemical measurements; determination of quantities of electricity and transport numbers. Electrical measurements of temperatures; chemical dynamics; X-ray study of solids; measurements in the field of radioactivity; optical measurements.

The book is intended for researchers and graduate students, workers in factory laboratories, and students of universities and technical colleges.

Modern Physico-Chemical Methods of Chemical Analysis. Collection of articles, edited by Prof. S. A. Shchukarev, issue II, Leningrad, ONTI, Khimteoret, 1935, issue II, 279 pp. + (1), 2,000 copies. 7 rub. 50 kopecks. Bibliography: at the end of individual articles and in footnotes in foreign and Russian languages.

* Based on materials of the Review and Bibliographic Department of ONTI.

Modern physicochemical methods of chemical analysis are set forth in detail. Some of the articles are devoted to electrochemical methods of measurement; another part describes optical methods, up to the most recent work on magneto-optical analysis, with a critical review of these methods. A separate article briefly describes methods of measurement with electron tubes, which are at present finding ever wider application in physical and physicochemical work. Most of the articles include a short list of the relevant literature.

The book is intended for scientific workers; it may serve as a manual for students of higher educational institutions and technical colleges, and also for chemical engineers in factory laboratories.

Elasticity and Plasticity. Works of the laboratory of the optical method for the study of stresses and of the laboratory of plastic deformations of the Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University named after A. S. Bubnov. L.—M. ONTI. Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature, 1935.

Issue 2. I. Optical method for the investigation of stresses. II. Study of stresses and deformations in the plastic zone. Edited by D. K. Knol, S. G. Lekhnitsky, L. E. Prokofyeva-Mikhailovskaya, G. A. Smirnov-Alyaev. 353 pp. with ill., drawings, and graphs. 3,000, 7 rub. On the cover title: “Experimental methods for determining stresses and deformations in the elastic and plastic zones.”

R. BECKER, Electron Theory. Translated from the German, edited by M. N. Bronstein, L.—M., ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature, 1935 (on the binding: 1936), 416 pp. with drawings, 5,000, 8 rub. + 1 rub. binding. Original title page in German. Bibliography: “Index of literature” (pp. 411—413).

The book is the second volume of Becker’s modernized two-volume Theory of Electricity, by Max Abraham, which went through several editions in German, and it examines the general foundations of electron theory, the elastically bound electron, and the equations of the electromagnetic field in media at rest. All obsolete theories have been excluded from the book; the theory of relativity is presented with the mathematical apparatus appropriate to it. Chapters have been written on the electron theory of metals, on the theory of magnetic properties of material bodies, and on equilibrium radiation.

A. WINTHER, Processing the Results of Physicochemical Observations. Translated from the French by Prof. M. I. Usanovich, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, M., ONTI, Main Editorial Office of Chemical Literature, 1936, 160 pp. with diagrams, tables. 5,000, 1 rub. 60 kop. + 1 rub. binding.

K. F. HERZFELD, Theory of the Solid Body. Translated from the German, edited by L. D. Landau, L.—M., ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature, 1936, 115 pp. with drawings and graphs, 4,000, 2 rub. 25 kop. Original title page in German.

General remarks on atomistic theories. Historical survey. Statistics of crystals. Oscillations in a lattice. Hypotheses concerning forces.

M. I. KORSUNSKY, Physics of X-Rays. M.—L., ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Monographs, 1936, 302 pp. with ill., drawings and graphs, 3,000, 7 rub. 50 kop. + 1 rub. binding. Bibliography: “Literature” (pp. 287—300).

The aim of the book is to give a systematic and, as far as possible, simple exposition of the principal questions in the physics of X-rays, especially the theory of their scattering, as having the greatest practical application. The production of X-rays and methods for their measurement are considered, as well as the braking spectrum, characteristic radiation, absorption of X-rays, the photoelectric effect, the theory of absorption, scattering of X-rays, scattering by solid bodies, scattering from the point of view of quantum theory, and the refraction of X-rays.

A name index is appended to the book.

A. MARCH, Introduction to Modern Atomic Physics. Translated from the German by L. A. Tumerman, M.—L., ONTI, Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Monographs, 1936, 116 pp., with drawings and graphs, 10,000, 1 rub. 25 kop. Original title page in German.

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The book is a generally accessible exposition of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. Intended primarily for the chemist, engineer, and natural scientist, the book is also meant for a broad circle of readers interested in the new results of atomic theory obtained in the work of de Broglie, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and others.

N. F. MOTT, Nuclear Wave Mechanics and Physics. Leningrad–Moscow, ONTI, Main Editorial Board of General Technical Literature, 1936, 112 pp. with drawings, 1 inset sheet of diagrams, 5,000 copies, 1 ruble 75 kopecks.

Contents. Mass defect and the stability of atomic nuclei with respect to $\alpha$- and $\beta$-decay. Statistical weights and nuclear statistics. Hyperfine structure, moments of nuclei and isotopes. Quantum explanation of $\alpha$-decay, $\beta$-rays and the line $\gamma$-spectrum. Coefficient of internal conversion. Long-range $\alpha$-rays. Results of investigations of the excited states of various radioactive nuclei. Mean lifetime of excited states of nuclei. Continuous spectrum of $\beta$-rays. Theory of normal and anomalous scattering of charged particles. Applications of the theory of anomalous scattering. Resonance levels. Scattering of neutrons. Inelastic collisions of nuclei. Artificial transmutation and excitation of atomic nuclei. The narrow character of Wilson tracks.

Appended to the book is an article by M. P. Bronstein on the latest achievements in the theory of the nucleus.

G. S. TAYLOR, Physical Chemistry. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Moscow, ONTI, Khimteoret, 1936, Part II, 1727 pp. with illustrations, tables, diagrams, 8,000 copies, 12 rubles + 1 ruble 50 kopecks binding. Bibliography in footnotes. Original title page in English.

The book consists of the following separate chapters. Electrometric methods in analytical chemistry. Rates of reactions in homogeneous systems. Kinetics in heterogeneous systems. Quantum theory and the structure of the atom. The third law of thermodynamics and the calculation of chemical constants. Photochemistry. Infrared radiation in chemical processes. Colloids. Radioactivity.

G. FALKENHAGEN, Electrolytes. Translated from German by R. L. Myuller. Edited by Prof. S. A. Shchukarev. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Leningrad, ONTI, Khimteoret, 1935, 467 pp., with tables, diagrams, 4,000 copies, 10 rubles + 1 ruble binding. Bibliography in footnotes. Original title page in German.

In a very concise and at the same time mathematically rigorous form, the author sets forth the fundamentals of the electrostatic theory of solutions. The latter is preceded by an exhaustive account of the historically preceding theoretical and experimental studies of electrolyte solutions.

V. FLEKSIG, Electrical Conductivity of Nonmetallic Crystals. Translated from German by V. I. Druzhinin. Edited by F. A. Kvitner, Moscow–Leningrad, ONTI, Main Editorial Board of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1936, 94 pp. with drawings and graphs + 2 pp. advertisements. (Advances in Physics) 3,000 copies, 1 ruble 50 kopecks. Original title page in German. Bibliography in footnotes.

The monograph illuminates a large number of experimental works carried out in this field over the last 15 years.