"Now if this electron is displaced from its……" — Pieter Zeeman
"Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest."
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Pieter Zeeman
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14 Quotes by Pieter Zeeman
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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each…
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On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that…
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Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the…
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The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
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It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The…
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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish…
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According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs…
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The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more…
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We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but…
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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two…
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In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as…
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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory,…
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