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1. When were X-rays discovered? (Quando os raios-X foram descobertos?
1. 2. Who discovered them? (Quem os descobriu?)
2. 3. What are the four characteristics of X-rays? (Quais são as quarto características dos raios-X?)
3. 4. Escreva 10 palavras cognatas encontradas no texto.
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The Discovery of X-rays
Except for a brief description of the Compton effect, and a few other remarks, we have postponed the
discussion of X-rays until the present chapter because it is particularly convenient to treat X-ray spectra after
treating optical spectra. Although this ordering may have given the reader a distorted impression of the historical
importance of X-rays, this impression will be corrected shortly as we describe the crucial role played by X-rays in
the development of modern physics.
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Roentgen while studying the phenomena of gaseous discharge. Using a
cathode ray tube with a high voltage of several tens of kilovolts, he noticed that salts of barium would fluoresce
when brought near the tube, although nothing visible was emitted by the tube. This effect persisted when the tube
was wrapped with a layer of black cardboard. Roentgen soon established that the agency responsible for the
fluorescence originated at the point at which the stream of energetic electrons struck the glass wall of the tube.
Because of its unknown nature, he gave this agency the name X-rays. He found that X-rays could manifest
themselves by darkening wrapped photographic plates, discharging charged electroscopes, as well as by causing
fluorescence in a number of different substances. He also found that X-rays can penetrate considerable
thicknesses of materials of low atomic number, whereas substances of high atomic number are relatively opaque.
Roentgen took the first steps in identifying the nature of X-rays by using a system of slits to show that (1) they
travel in straight lines, and that (2) they are uncharged, because they are not deflected by electric or magnetic
fields.
The discovery of X-rays aroused the interest of all physicists, and many joined in the investigation of their
properties. In 1899 Haga and Wind performed a single slit diffraction experiment with X-rays which showed that
(3) X-rays are a wave motion phenomenon, and, from the size of the diffraction pattern, their wavelength could be
estimated to be 10-8 cm. In 1906 Barkla proved that (4) the waves are transverse by showing that they can be
polarized by scattering from many materials.
There is, of course, no longer anything unknown about the nature of X-rays. They are electromagnetic
radiation of exactly the same nature as visible light, except that their wavelength is several orders of magnitude
shorter. This conclusion follows from comparing properties 1 through 4 with the similar properties of visible light,
but it was actually postulated by Thomson several years before all these properties were known. Thomson argued
that X-rays are electromagnetic radiation because such radiation would be expected to be emitted from the point
at which the electrons strike the wall of a cathode ray tube. At this point, the electrons suffer very violent
accelerations in coming to a stop and, according to classical electromagnetic theory, all accelerated charged
particles emit electromagnetic radiations. We shall see later that this explanation of the production of X-rays is at
least partially correct.
In common with other electromagnetic radiations, X-rays exhibit particle-like aspects as well as wave-like
aspects. The reader will recall that the Compton effect, which is one of the most convincing demonstrations of the
existence of quanta, was originally observed with electromagnetic radiation in the X-ray region of wavelengths.​