Identity area
Reference code
JeffreysB/D/D1-D74/D21-D24/D22-D24
Unique identifier
GB 275 JeffreysB/D/D1-D74/D21-D24/D22-D24
Title
'Potential barriers 1942 + 1956'
Date(s)
- 1942–1994 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
paper
Context area
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Repository
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Contents of folder so labelled divide into three for ease of reference: 1994 typescript note on the use by Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles of the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin Approximation and the potential barrier problem; manuscript calculations, some dated 1956 and 1977. The folder also contained offprints of 'Note on the Transparency of a Potential Barrier', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 38 (D21) and 'The Use of the Airy Functions in a Potential Barrier Problem', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol 52 (D36).