Historical roots of gauge invariance
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J.D. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, speaks about the history of gauge theory. A number of reviews of gauge theories cover the period from about 1929 (Wiley's major paper on the subject) to the present. Lev Okun and Prof. Jackson address the prehistory of the subject, starting with Ampere, Neumann, Weber and others, and the debates over the correct form of the vector potential. The story continues with Maxwell, Lorenz, Helmholz, Clausius, and Lorentz by which time the ideas of different, equivalent gauges for the potentials in classical electromagnetism had been clarified completely. They then discuss the annus mirabilus, 1926, with Fock's discovery of the phase transformation of the wave function that must accompany a gauge change of the potentials. The unfair belittlement of the contributions of Lorenz and Fock are aired. Portraits of all the electricians are presented as the story unfolds. |
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Title |
Historical roots of gauge invariance |
Creator |
Jackson, John David, 1925-2016. |
Creator |
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics. |
Published |
2003. |
Full Collection Name |
UCB Physics Department Lectures |
Subject (Topic) |
Gauge invariance Congresses. Invariance de jauge Congrès. |
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Video |
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1 online resource (1 streaming video file) |
Archive |
Physics Library |
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Originally produced as a VHS in 2003. "Reference: J.D. Jackson and Lev. Okun, Rev. Mod. Phys. vol. 73, 663-680 (2001)." |
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Physics Lectures |
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lectures/phys020.mp4 |
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