Author: Olivier Darrigol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192666185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Motion is always relative to some thing. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an abstract space, or is it an imagined frame? Do the laws of physics depend on the choice of reference? It there a choice for which the laws are simplest? Is this choice unique? Is there a physical cause for the choice made? These questions traverse the history of modern physics from Galileo to Einstein. The answers involved Galilean relativity, Newton's absolute space, the purely relational concepts of Descartes, Leibniz, and Mach, and many forgotten uses of relativity principles in mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics - until the relativity theories of Poincaré, Einstein, Minkowksi, and Laue radically redefined space and time to satisfy universal kinds of relativity. Accordingly, this book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it brings unprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew.
Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein
Author: Olivier Darrigol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192666185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Motion is always relative to some thing. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an abstract space, or is it an imagined frame? Do the laws of physics depend on the choice of reference? It there a choice for which the laws are simplest? Is this choice unique? Is there a physical cause for the choice made? These questions traverse the history of modern physics from Galileo to Einstein. The answers involved Galilean relativity, Newton's absolute space, the purely relational concepts of Descartes, Leibniz, and Mach, and many forgotten uses of relativity principles in mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics - until the relativity theories of Poincaré, Einstein, Minkowksi, and Laue radically redefined space and time to satisfy universal kinds of relativity. Accordingly, this book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it brings unprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192666185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Motion is always relative to some thing. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an abstract space, or is it an imagined frame? Do the laws of physics depend on the choice of reference? It there a choice for which the laws are simplest? Is this choice unique? Is there a physical cause for the choice made? These questions traverse the history of modern physics from Galileo to Einstein. The answers involved Galilean relativity, Newton's absolute space, the purely relational concepts of Descartes, Leibniz, and Mach, and many forgotten uses of relativity principles in mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics - until the relativity theories of Poincaré, Einstein, Minkowksi, and Laue radically redefined space and time to satisfy universal kinds of relativity. Accordingly, this book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it brings unprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew.
Einstein, Newton, Poincaré
Author: Françoise Balibar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Least action
Languages : fr
Pages : 250
Book Description
Une mise en perspective historique et conceptuelle de la théorie de la relativité en s'appuyant sur des textes fondateurs, tel le mémoire de Riemann de 1854 qui a profondément influencé le travail d'Einstein.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Least action
Languages : fr
Pages : 250
Book Description
Une mise en perspective historique et conceptuelle de la théorie de la relativité en s'appuyant sur des textes fondateurs, tel le mémoire de Riemann de 1854 qui a profondément influencé le travail d'Einstein.
Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity
Author: Jean-Marc Ginoux
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031513878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031513878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Une nouvelle figure du monde
Author: Lucien Fabre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 260
Book Description
Le principe de la relativité et les théories d'Einstein
Author: Louis-Gustave Du Pasquier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 540
Book Description
Einstein et Poincaré
Author: Jean-Paul Auffray
Publisher: Editions le Pommier
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 314
Book Description
L'histoire de la découverte de la relativité et le problème du rapport entre la physique et les mathématiques.
Publisher: Editions le Pommier
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 314
Book Description
L'histoire de la découverte de la relativité et le problème du rapport entre la physique et les mathématiques.
Comment le jeune et ambitieux Einstein s'est approprié la Relativité restreinte de Poincaré
Author: Jean Hladik
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : fr
Pages : 164
Book Description
Après avoir réuni les travaux des principaux protagonistes qui ont participé à la création de la théorie de la Relativité, Lorentz, Poincaré et Einstein, l'auteur découvre l'importance des textes de Poincaré. Il se demande alors qui est le véritable fondateur de la Relativité. Einstein s'est-il sciemment approprié les travaux de Poincaré ? Cet ouvrage apporte la réponse à cette question.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : fr
Pages : 164
Book Description
Après avoir réuni les travaux des principaux protagonistes qui ont participé à la création de la théorie de la Relativité, Lorentz, Poincaré et Einstein, l'auteur découvre l'importance des textes de Poincaré. Il se demande alors qui est le véritable fondateur de la Relativité. Einstein s'est-il sciemment approprié les travaux de Poincaré ? Cet ouvrage apporte la réponse à cette question.
La Théorie de la relativité
Author: Max von Laue
Publisher:
ISBN: 8229604118
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 8229604118
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 168
Book Description
La Philosophie des sciences de Henri Poincaré
Author: Jean Dhombres
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : fr
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : fr
Pages : 150
Book Description
La relativité, Poincaré et Einstein, Planck, Hilbert
Author: Jules Leveugle
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2747568628
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 344
Book Description
A l'aube du vingtième siècle, un jeune homme de vingt-six ans révolutionne la Physique malgré l'opposition de tous les vieux savants.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2747568628
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 344
Book Description
A l'aube du vingtième siècle, un jeune homme de vingt-six ans révolutionne la Physique malgré l'opposition de tous les vieux savants.