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Analysis of the Jun Ishiwara’s “The universal meaning of the quantum of action”

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Here, we present an analysis of the paper “Universelle Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums” (The universal meaning of the quantum of action), published by Jun Ishiwara in German in the “Proceedings of Tokyo Mathematico-Physical Society 8 (1915) 106–116”. In his work, Ishiwara, established in the Sendai University, Japan, proposed – simultaneously with Arnold Sommerfeld, William Wilson and Niels Bohr in Europe – the phase-space-integral quantization, a rule that would be incorporated into the old-quantum-theory formalism. The discussions and analysis render this paper fully accessible to undergraduate students of physics with elementary knowledge of quantum mechanics.

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Pelogia, K., Brasil, C.A. Analysis of the Jun Ishiwara’s “The universal meaning of the quantum of action”. EPJ H 42, 507–521 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2017-80034-x

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