Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein
This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteeth-century mechanics, optics and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth ce...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein / Olivier Darrigol,... |
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Oxford University Press
, C 2022 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xii-472 p.) |
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Résumé : | This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteeth-century mechanics, optics and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. |
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Notes : | Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur |
Bibliographie : | Rèf. bibliogr. p. [417]-464. Notes bibliogr. Index |
ISBN : | 978-0-19-284953-3 |