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Abstract
Here, we present an analysis of the paper “Universelle Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums” (The universal meaning of the quantum of action), published by Jun Ishiwara in German in the “Proceedings of Tokyo Mathematico-Physical Society 8 (1915) 106–116”. In his work, Ishiwara, established in the Sendai University, Japan, proposed – simultaneously with Arnold Sommerfeld, William Wilson and Niels Bohr in Europe – the phase-space-integral quantization, a rule that would be incorporated into the old-quantum-theory formalism. The discussions and analysis render this paper fully accessible to undergraduate students of physics with elementary knowledge of quantum mechanics.
在这里,我们对石原君在《东京数学物理学会学报》8(1915)106-116上发表的《作用量子的普遍意义》(Universelle Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums)一文进行了分析。石原在日本仙台大学就职,在他的工作中,他与欧洲的阿诺德·萨默菲尔德、威廉·威尔逊和尼尔斯·玻尔同时提出了相空间积分量子化,这一规则将被纳入旧的量子理论形式主义。本文的讨论和分析使具有基本量子力学知识的物理学本科学生能够完全理解本文。
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