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EDDN/B/3/18 · Item · [before July 1942]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

ff. 1–9:
§ 1. Introduction.
§ 2. The theoretical formulae.
§ 3. Comparison of theory and observation.
§ 4. Alternative experimental methods.
§ 5. Values of the constants.

f. 10:
§ 5. The problem of consistency [beginning].

f. 11:
[§ 6. The β-coefficients [conclusion].]

ff. 12–21:
[§ 2. The theoretical formulae [conclusion].]
§ 3. Comparison of theory and observation
§ 4. Values of the constants.
§ 5. The problem of consistency.
§ 6. The β-coefficients.
§ 7. The spectroscopic e/mec.

ff. 22–5:
§ 6. The β-coefficients.
§ 7. The constant e/mec [beginning].

(This item comprises various superseded parts of B3/19. The sheets have been numbered in the order in which they were found, but it is possible that some jumbling has taken place. At least six different states of this paper may be distinguished, as follows:
(i) B3/18, ff. 1–9.
(ii) B3/19, ff. 1–6; B3/18, ff. 12–21
(iii) B3/19, ff. 1–12; B3/18, f. 10.
(iv) B3/19, ff. 1–15; B3/18, ff. 22–25;
(v) B3/19, ff. 1–16; B3/18, f. 11; B3/19, ff. 18–?.
(vi) B3/19, ff. 1–17, 17a, 18–23.)

EDDN/B/3/19 · Item · [before June 1942]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

Abstract.

§ 1. Introduction.
§ 2. The theoretical formulae.
§ 3. Comparison of theory and observation.
§ 4. Values of the constants.
§ 5. The problem of consistency.
§ 6. The β-coefficients.
§ 7. The constant e/mec.
§ 8. The constant h/e.

(This manuscript, which is marked as having been received by the Physical Society on 8 June, was evidently used as the copy for the text printed in the Society's Proceedings.)

EDDN/B/3/12 · Item · [1938?]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

§ 1. Relation between quantum theory and relativity theory.
§ 2. The standard of length.
§ 3. The two ways of representing energy.
§ 4. Representation of energy by curvature.
§ 5. Representation of energy by waves.
§ 6. Wave analysis of the uranoid.
§ 7. The specified particles.
§ 8. Determination of m/m0.
§ 9. Degeneracy pressure.
§ 10. The cosmical constants.
§ 11. The relation E/V=3P.
§ 12. The time-periodicity of wave functions.
§ 13. Nuclear physics.

(This appears to be the English original of a paper given by Eddington at Warsaw in 1938 and printed as ‘Applications cosmologiques de la théorie des quanta’ in Les nouvelles théories de la physique (Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, Paris, 1939).)

[Untitled]
EDDN/B/3/3 · Item · [before July 1942]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

§ 1. The conditions of observability.
§ 2. Correlation.
§ 3. The uncertainty of the origin.

(Earlier than B2/17. Contains a reference to an article by H. C. Corben in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, xxxv (1939), 203.)

[Chapter I]
EDDN/B/3/2 · Item · [before July 1942]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

§ 1∙1. The conditions of observability.
§ 1∙2. Measurables.
§ 1∙3. The fundamental tensor.
§ 1∙4. The comparison fluid.
§ 1∙5. Wave functions.
§ 1∙6. Density and mass.

(Earlier than B2/17. Contains two-number references.)

[Chapter I]
EDDN/B/3/7 · Item · [early 1940s]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

§ 1∙1. Wave functions.
§ 1∙2. The fundamental tensor.

(Marked by Slater ‘later than h [i.e. B3/8]’.)

EDDN/B/3/14 · Item · [Aug.–Sept. 1942]
Part of Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

Introduction.

Part I: The Uncertainty of the Reference Frame.
§ 1. The uncertainty of the origin.
§ 2. The Bernoulli fluctuation.
§ 3. The standard of length.
§ 4. Range of nuclear forces and the recession of the nebulae.
§ 5. Uranoids.
§ 6. The extraneous standard and scale-free physics.
§ 7. Stabilised characteristics.
§ 8. Pseudo-discrete states.

Part II: Multiplicity Factors.
§ 9. The rigid field treatment.
§ 10. Rigid fields in scale-free physics.
§ 11. Standard carriers.
§ 12. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§ 13. The inversion of quantum energy.
§ 14. Rigid coordinates.
§ 15. Mutual and self energy.

Part III: Electrical Theory.
§ 16. Interchange of comparison particles.
§ 17. Electric energy.
§ 18. The β-factors.
§ 19. The fine structure constant.
§ 20. Comparison with observation.

Part IV: Gravitation, Exclusion and Interchange.
§ 21. Physical and geometrical momenta.
§ 22. The creation of proper mass.
§ 23. Determination of m0 and m.
§ 24. The constant of gravitation.
§ 25. Exclusion.
§ 26. The negative energy levels
§ 27. Interchange of external particles.
§ 28. Non-Coulombian energy.

(For the date, see Slater, p. 12. The titles of §§ 11 and 22 were altered respectively from ‘Initial and transition energy’ and ‘The origin of proper mass’.)