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The new delightful book by Greenstein and Zajonc(9) contains several examples where the outcome of experiments was not what physicists expected. Careful analysis of the Schrddinger equation revealed what the intuitive argument had overlooked and showed that QM is correct. In Chapter 2, Photons , they tell the story that Einstein got the Nobel Prize in 1922 for the explaining the photoelectric effect with the concept of particle-like photons. In 1969 Crisp and Jaynes(IO) and Lamb and Scullyfl I) showed that the quantum nature of the photoelectric effect can be explained with a classical radiation field and a quantum description for the atom. Photons do exist, but they only show up when the EM field is in a state that is an eigenstate of the number operator, and they do not reveal themselves in the photoelectric effect. 

Cyclicity of administration is vital in the use of 5-FU as a radiosensitizer. The concept of cyclical treatment has been well established in cancer chemotherapy and alien to classical radiation therapy (where it is termed split-course therapy). 5-FU radio-sensitizes tumor tissue as well as normal cells. However, this normal tissue radio-sensitizationis limited to the irradiated field. Suitable fractionation (i.e., cyclical therapy) can permit rapid normal tissue recovery (23). The results of infused 5-FU and radiation in head and neck cancer supports the principle that cyclical treatment with 5-FU does not suffer from the limitations apparent in split-course radiation treatments. 

But experiments to resolve the fine structure of the Balmer lines were difficult as you all know, resolution was impeded by the Doppler broadening of components. So ionized helium comes into the picture, because, as Sommerfeld s formula predicted, fine structure intervals are a function of (aZ)2, so in helium they are of order four times as wide as in hydrogen and one has more chance of resolving the Doppler-broadened lines. So PASCHEN [40], in 1916. undertook an extensive study of the He+ lines and in particular, 4686 A (n = 4->3). Fine structure, indeed, was found and matched against Sommerfeld s formula. The measurements were used to determine a value of a. But the structure did not really match the theory in that the quantum numbers bore no imprint of electron spin, so even the orbital properties - which dominated the intensity rules based on a correspondence with classical radiation theory - were wrongly associated with components, and the value of a derived from this first study was later abandoned. 

Fig. 8a-d. Generation of Synchrotron radiation by a circling electron or positron, a) Classical radiation emission by a particle accelerated in direction v b) corresponding radiation emission by a circling particle in the nonrelativistic case c) radiation emission by a circling particle in the relativistic case d) out of plane angular dependence of the scattering intensity in case c)... 

When I saw Professor Dickinson s car, I exclaimed to John, Look at that car Have you ever seen such a beautiful car It was 1938 Buick convertible coupe with a rumble seat, black canvas cover, solid bright red color, white sidewall tires, and a classic radiator grill. Dickinson put the box with the S-10 in the rumble seat and closed the lid. As he drove off, I said to myself, I hope he ll let me ride in it sometimes. ... 

Schwinger J (1949) On the classical radiation of accelerated electrons. Phys Rev 75 1912... 

While this severe restriction on all conceivable transitions was an indisputable consequence of the Correspondence Principle, the prediction of the relative intensities of the allowed transitions was less certain since this implied some sort of averaging between the classical radiations from the initial and final, states. The principle was applied to predict the intensities and polarization of the Stark effect components of the Balrner lines with considerable success for those electric fields at which the Stark effect is much greater than the fine structure [74]. The selection rule Ak = is no longer valid when the atom is in an electric field. Thus forbidden lines were predicted even for relatively weak fields where the theory could not be tested, but the intensity of such lines would decrease to zero with the field,... 

The natural line width was first derived from a classical radiation damping model and was later derived on a quantum mechanical basis by Weisskopf and Wigner and Hoyt. It is due to uncertainty in the energy of the excited level having a finite lifetime. The natural line width is much smaller than will be of concern in this paper, of the order of 0.01 cm. ... 

Since — r as well as r always occurs in the Fourier expansion, the sign of the expression for the classical radiation frequency has no significance. 

When the classical radiation damping is neglected, the electric... 

If the alterations rk of the quantum numbers are small in comparison with the numbers themselves, the Fourier coefficients CT for the initial and final states differ by a relatively small amount. On the basis of the correspondence principle wo must now lay down the following requirement For large values and small variations of the quantum numbers, the light wave corresponding to the quantum transition tx. . . t, is approximately the same as that which would be sent out by a classical radiator with electric moment... 

Principles of Radiation Thermometers. A detailed discussion on opto-electronic temperature measuring systems for radiance thermometers can be found in Ref. 48. In the USA, ITS-90 above the gold point is maintained by NIST [49]. A classical radiation thermometer is shown in Fig. 16.24. Radiation from the object whose temperature is to be measured is... 

McMillan EM (1945) The synchrotron. A proposed high energy particle accelerator. Phys Rev 68 143-144 Schwinger J (1949) On the classical radiation of accelerated electrons. Phys Rev 75 1912-1925 Turner S (ed) (1990) Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers. CERN Accelerator School Proceedings, CERN 90-03, Geneva, Switzerland... 

Emission spectra were first utilized in analytical chemistry as they were simpler to detect than absorption spectra. Flames, arcs, and sparks are all classical radiation sources. Lundegardh first applied a pneumatic nebulizer and an air-acetylene flame. The development of prism and grating instruments was parallel. Photography was employed to detect the spectral lines. The first commercial flame photometers came on the market in 1937. 

Jammer, when he refers to researches in modern physics, presumably means the philosophical difficulties created by quantum physics. Quantum theory was first introduced to explain a number of experimental laws concerning phenomena of thermal radiation and spectroscopy which are inexplicable in terms of classical radiation theory. Eventually it was modified and expanded into its present state. The standard interpretation of the experimental evidence for the quantum theory concludes that in certain circumstances some of the postulated elements such as electrons behave as particles, and in other circumstances they behave as waves. The details of the theory are unimportant to us except in respect of the Heisenburg uncertainty relations . One of these is the well known formula Ap Aq > hl4ir where p and q are the instantaneous co-ordinates of momentum and position of the particle, Ap and Aqi are the interval errors in the measurements of p and q, and h is the Universal Planck s constant. The interpretation of this formula is, therefore, that if one of these co-ordinates is measured with great precision, it is not possible to obtain simultaneously an arbitrarily precise value for the other co-ordinate. The equations of quantum theory cannot, therefore, establish a unique correspondence between precise positions and momenta at one time and at another time nevertheless the theory does enable a probability with which a particle has a specified momentum when it has a given position. Thus quantum theory is said to be not deterministic (i.e, not able to be precisely determined) in its structure but inherently statistical. Nagel [25] points out that this theory refers to micro-states and not macro-states. Thus although quantum... 

Classical radiation theory originally proposed a quantity called oscillator strength, which was related to the intensity of emission of a given radiation. It was originally defined as the number of electrons per atom responsible for the radiation. This explanation no longer is valid but the term oscillator strength / is still used and is defined as follows ... 

When sarcoidosis progresses to fibrosis, architectural distortion and traction bronchiectasis classically radiating from the hilum to the adjacent upper and lower lobes can be found. Other common CT abnor-mahties in fibrotic sarcoidosis include honeycombing, cysts, and buUa formation. Airway stenosis in sarcoidosis is usually due to extrinsic scarring, or to endobronchial granulomas, whereas lymphadenopathy alone is a rare cause of symptomatic airway narrowing. 

We begin by assuming that the quantum mechanical system under study may be well-approximated by a mixed quantum lassical system driven by a classical radiation field, in which the photo-active DOF (i.e. chromophore) are treated quantum mechanically and the photo-inactive DOF (i.e. environment) are treated classically. The time-dependent Hamiltonian for this system is given by ... 

Vibrational Transitions. If the molecule has a permanent dipole moment at the equilibrhmi distance (ro in Fig. 3.7) this moment will vary periodically during vibration. Classically, radiation will then be emitted. If a diatomic molecule has a harmonic oscillatory movement we obtain the quantum mechanical selection rule... 

With the formalism of the time-dependent perturbation theory for interaction between an electron and the classical radiation field, within the electric dipole and Bom-Oppenheimer approximations, the isotropic absorption cross section is given by [17]... 

According to classical radiation theory the power radiated by a system which is much smaller in size than the wavelength of the emitted light is determined by the electric dipole moment. If the electric dipole moment is enhanced, so will the radiated... 

The shape of k X) is determined by the effects of Doppler and collisional broadening (refer to Section 2.1). For the quantity one can use the results of the classical radiation theory [105], which provides the correlation between fc(A) and N, where N denotes the volume concentration of absorbing atoms in the ground state ... 

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