Open AccessOn the determination of the range of frequencies within the group of mechanical waves of a electron
Author(s) -
H. T. Flint
Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1929.0203
Subject(s) - physics , group (periodic table) , electron , range (aeronautics) , group velocity , sound wave , space (punctuation) , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , optics , acoustics , materials science , philosophy , linguistics , composite material
The wave theory of mechanics substitutes a group of waves extending over a small range of frequencies for the usual conception of the electron, thus leading to the view that the electron is a wave disturbance which travels as a compact group through space, but which does not spread into an increasingly large region like waves from a source of light or sound. An example of this has been considered in detail by Schroedinger (‘Die Naturwiss.’ vol. 28, p. 664), and the group obtained by adding together the phase waves for the linear Planck oscillator.