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Cathode rays
Production in a discharge tube
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Thermionic emission of electrons
The principle and the accelerating pd
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Specific charge of the electron
Thomson's determination and its significance
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Millikan's determination of the electronic charge
Oil drops, Stokes' law and quantisation
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Newton's corpuscular theory of light
Compared with Huygens' wave theory
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Significance of Young's double slits experiment
Delayed acceptance of the wave theory
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Electromagnetic waves
Maxwell's formula, Hertz and Fizeau
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The discovery of photoelectricity
The ultraviolet catastrophe and Planck's quanta
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Wave-particle duality and electron diffraction
De Broglie's hypothesis tested
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Electron microscopes
The transmission electron microscope and the STM
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The Michelson-Morley experiment
Detecting absolute motion, and the failure to
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Einstein's theory of special relativity
Inertial frames and the two postulates
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Time dilation
Proper time and evidence from muon decay
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Length contraction
The length of a moving object
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Mass and energy in relativity
Variation of mass and kinetic energy with speed
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