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HANDBOOK OF PHYSICS McGRAW-HILL HANDBOOKS Abbott and Smith • National Electrical Code Handbook, 9th ed. Aljian • Purchasing Handbook American Institute of Physics • American Institute of Physics Handbook American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Handbook: Engineering Tables ASME Handbook: Metals Engineering—Design ASME Handbook: Metals Engineering—Processes ASME Handbook: Metals Properties American Society of Tool Engineers • Die Design Handbook American Society of Tool Engineers • Tool Engineers Handbook Beeman • Industrial Power Systems Handbook Berry, Bollay, and Beers • Handbook of Meteorology Brady • Materials Handbook, Sth ed. Cockrell • Industrial Electronics Handbook Compressed Air and Gas Institute • Compressed Air Handbook, 2d ed. Condon and Odishaw ■ Handbook of Physics Considine • Process Instruments and Controls Handbook Crocker • Piping Handbook, 4th ed. Croft • American Electricians’ Handbook, 7th ed. Davis • Handbook of Applied Hydraulics, 2d ed. 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Magill, Holden, and Ackley • Air Pollution Handbook Manas • National Plumbing Code Handbook Mantell • Engineering Materials Handbook Marks and Baumeister • Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook, 6th ed. Markus and Zeluff • Handbook of Industrial Electronic Circuits Markus and Zeluff • Handbook of Industrial Electronic Control Circuits Maynard • Industrial Engineering Handbook Merritt • Building Construction Handbook Morrow • Maintenance Engineering Handbook O’Rourke • General Engineering Handbook, 2d ed. Pacific Coast Gas Association • Gas Engineers’ Handbook Perry • Chemical Business Handbook Perry • Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, 3d ed. Siiand • Glass Engineering Handbook, 2d ed. Staniar • Plant Engineering Handbook, 2d ed. Terman • Radio Engineers’ Handbook Tiutxal • Control Engineers’ Handbook Urquiiart • Civil Engineering Handbook, 1th ed. Yoder, Heneman, Turnbull, and Stone • Handbook of Personnel Management and Labor Relations HANDBOOK OF PHYSICS Prepared by a staff of specialists Edited by E. U. CONDON, Ph.D. Way man Crow Professor of Physics Washington University, St. Louis Former Director, National Bureau of Standards Washington, D. C. HUGH ODISHAW, D.Sc. Executive Director, U. S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. Former Assistant to the Director, National Bureau of Standardsy Washington, Z>. C. McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. New York Toronto London 1958 HANDBOOK OF PHYSICS Copyright © 1958 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 57-6387 THE MAPLE PRESS COMPANY, YORK, PA. Contributors Milton Abramowitz Clyde R. Burnett Chief, Computation Laboratory Assistant Professor National Bureau of Standards {deceased) The Pennsylvania State University Lawrence H. Aller Herbert B. Callen Professor of Astronomy Professor of Physics University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania Franz L. Alt G. M. Clemence Assistant Chief Scientific Director Applied Mathematics Division U.S. Naval Observatory National Bureau of Standards E. U. Condon R. D. Arnold Way man Crow Professor of Physics Operations Analyst Washington University Operations Evaluation Group E. Richard Cohen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Advisor K. R. Atkins Atomics International A Division of North American Aviation, Inc. Professor of Physics University of Pennsylvania L. E. Copeland Senior Research Chemist John Bardeen Portland Cement Association Professor of Physics Research and Development Laboratories and Professor of Electrical Engineering U?iiversity of Illinois C. F. Curtiss Associate Professor of Chemistry Richard A. Beth University of Wisconsin Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory Jesse W. M. DuMond R. Byron Bird Professor of Physics Professor of Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology University of Wisconsin Leonard Eisenbud John P. Blewett Physicist Senior Physicist Bartol Research Foundation Brookhaven National Laboratory Churchill Eisenhart Robert R. Brown Chief Assistant Professor Statistical Engineering Laboratory University of California, Berkeley National Bureau of Standards Sanborn C. Brown William E. Forsythe Associate Professor of Physics Lamp Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Electric Company William Fuller Brown, Jr. M. M. Frocht Professor of Electrical Engineering Research Professor of Mechanics University of Minnesota and Director of Experimental Stress Analysis Stephen Brunauer Illinois Institute of Technology Principal Research Chemist Lawrence S. Germain Portland Cement Association University of California Radiation Laboratory Research and Development Laboratories Livermore CONTRIBUTORS Walter Gordv Walter H. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Physics, Duke University Research Associate School of Physics R. W. Gurney University of Minnesota Research Associate University of Bristol {deceased) Deane B. Judd Physicist Andrew Guthrie National Bureau of Standards Heady Nucleonics Division C. Lanczos U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory Senior Professor David Halliday Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Professor of Physics Gerald L. Landsman University of Pittsburgh Assistant Director for Research and Development Walter J. Hamer Military Electronics Division Chiefy Electrochemistry Section Motorola, Inc. National Bureau of Standards Howard R. Lillie R. W. Hayward Staff Research Manager Corning Glass Works Radioactivity Section National Bureau of Standards Julian Ellis Mack Professor of Physics Max J. Herzberger University of Wisconsin Senior Research Associate Kodak Research Laboratories Robert Maurer Professor of Physics E. L. Hill University of Illinois Professor of Physics University of Minnesota J. Rand McNally, Jr. Physicist John A. Hippie Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director of Rcscarchy Philips Laboratories Walter C. Michels J. G. Hirsehberg Marion Reillcy Professor of Physics University of Wisco/ma Bryn Mawr College Joseph 0. Hirschfelder Elliott W. Mont roll Professor of Chemistry Research Professor and Director of The University of irimmsm Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Naval Research Laboratory Mathematics University of Wisconsin University of Maryland Alan J. Hoilman Philip M. Morse Consultant Professor of Physics Management Consultation Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Electric Company (1. O. Muehlhause Theodor Ilurliinann Chief of the Reactor Group Reaktor Ltd. National Bureau of Standards Wnerenlingen Hamid H. Nielsen Switzerland Professor of Physics Uno Ingarrl The Ohio State University Associate Professor of Physics Alfred 0. Nier Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Fritz John tTniversity of Minnesota Professor of Mathematics Richard M. Noyes Institute of Mathematical Sciences Professor of Chemistry New York University University of Oregon
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