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The challenges of time : myth, physics, environment / / Walter Grassi
The challenges of time : myth, physics, environment / / Walter Grassi
Autore Grassi Walter
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (153 pages)
Disciplina 529
Soggetto topico Science - Philosophy
Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 9783030943721
9783030943714
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910551842903321
Grassi Walter  
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
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The challenges of time : myth, physics, environment / / Walter Grassi
The challenges of time : myth, physics, environment / / Walter Grassi
Autore Grassi Walter
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (153 pages)
Disciplina 529
Soggetto topico Science - Philosophy
Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 9783030943721
9783030943714
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISA-996466840703316
Grassi Walter  
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
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Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Autore Fernflores Francisco
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 530.11
Collana Energy physics and engineering collection
Soggetto topico Special relativity (Physics)
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-946646-75-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910467146103321
Fernflores Francisco  
New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
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Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Autore Fernflores Francisco
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 530.11
Collana Energy physics and engineering collection
Soggetto topico Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 1-946646-75-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910796478503321
Fernflores Francisco  
New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
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Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Einstein's mass-energy equation . Volume II Quantum mechanics and gravitation, empirical tests, and philosophical debates / / Francisco Fernflores
Autore Fernflores Francisco
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 530.11
Collana Energy physics and engineering collection
Soggetto topico Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 1-946646-75-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821554503321
Fernflores Francisco  
New York, New York : , : Momentum Press Engineering, , [2018]
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Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / / Galina Weinstein
Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / / Galina Weinstein
Autore Weinstein Galina
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (660 pages)
Disciplina 530.078
Soggetto topico Physics - Experiments - History
Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 9781527585157
9781443895125
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- The First Chapter (A) -- The Second Chapter (B) -- The Third Chapter (C) -- The Fourth Chapter (D) -- The Fifth Chapter (E) -- The Final Chapter (F) -- Chapter A. -- 1 Einstein's Parents and Sister Maja -- 2 The Move to Munich and the Electric Firm -- 3 Rebellious and Creative -- 4 Einstein Cannot Take Authority and Demands for Obedience -- 4.1 Primary School -- 4.2 Secondary School -- 5 Einstein Teaches Himself Natural Science and Philosophy -- 5.1 Max Talmud Recommends Bernstein and Kant -- 5.2 Einstein Reads a Small Geometry Book -- 5.3 Einstein Is Free in Italy -- 6 Secondary School in Aarau -- 7 Polytechnic in Zurich -- 7.1 Professors Weber and Pernet Turn On Einstein -- 7.2 Einstein Never Shows Up or Skips the Classes of Mathematicians -- 7.3 Einstein's Friends: Grossmann, Besso and Maric -- 7.4 Einstein's Residence in Zurich -- 8 Einstein Seeks a Position -- 8.1 The Rebel Graduate Einstein Is Rejected -- 8.2 Professor Weber Is Behind Einstein's Difficulties -- 8.3 Einstein Finds Temporary Positions and Grossmann Rescues Him -- 9 Physics Group -- 9.1 The Patent Office -- 9.2 Michele Besso, Joseph Sauter, Lucian Chavan and Heinrich Zangger -- 10 Philosophy Group -- 10.1 Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht -- 10.2 The Olympia Academy -- 10.3 The Reading List of the Academy -- 11 Annus Mirabilis -- 11.1 Letters to Habicht -- 11.2 Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers -- 12 German Scientists Respond to Einstein's Relativity Paper -- 12.1 Professor Max Planck Writes to Einstein -- 12.2 Max Laue Meets Einstein -- 13 Einstein Teaches His Three Friends at the University of Bern -- 13.1 Patent Clerk Rebels against Academic Rules -- 13.2 Jakob Johann Laub Meets Einstein in Bern -- 13.3 Einstein's Students: Besso and Chavan.
14 Einstein Leaves the Patent Office for his First Post in Zurich -- 14.1 A University Professor at Zurich -- 14.2 Einstein Invents with the Habicht Brothers -- 14.3 Einstein's First Lecture at the Salzburg Meeting -- 14.4 Zurich-Prague-Zurich-Berlin -- 14.5 Einstein as a Weirdly Shabby Dressed Genius -- Chapter B. -- 1 Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau's Experiment of 1851 -- 1.1 Emission and Wave Theories of Light -- 1.2 Arago and Fresnel -- 1.3 Fizeau's Water Tube Experiment of 1851 -- 1.4 Lorentz Derives Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient in his Electron Theory -- 2 The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 2.1 Maxwell's Letter to Todd -- 2.2 Michelson in Helmholtz's Lab -- 2.3 Michelson in Paris -- 2.4 Michelson Returns to Cleveland and Works with Morley -- 3 Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics -- 4 The Contraction Hypothesis -- 5 Variation of Mass with Velocity -- Chapter C. Part One -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Einstein Believes in the Ether -- 3 The Chasing a Light Beam Thought Experiment -- 4 Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment -- 4.1 Maxwell's Equations and Induction -- 4.2 What Prompted Einstein to Invent the Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment? -- 5 Ether Drift and Michelson and Morley's Experiment -- 5.1 Einstein Designs Ether Drift Experiments between 1899 and 1901 -- 5.2 Einstein's Different Statements as to the Role that Michelson's Experiment Played in his Development -- 5.3 Robert Shankland's Interviews with Einstein on Michelson's Experiments -- 6 Emission Theory and Ether Drift Experiments -- 6.1 Ritz's Emission Theory -- 6.2 Einstein's First Reaction to Ehrenfest's Paper -- 6.3 Einstein Falls into the Jungle -- 7 Einstein's Route to Special Relativity from 1895 to 1903-1904 -- 8 "The Step -- 9 Einstein's Steps Toward the "The Step -- 9.1 Five to Six Weeks between the Discovery and the Relativity Paper.
9.2 The Einstein-Besso Meeting -- 9.3 The Final Discovery within Five Weeks -- 10 The Relativity Paper -- 10.1 A "Rigid Body" and Contraction -- 10.2 1905 -- 10.3 Definition of Distant Simultaneity without Reference to Synchronized Clocks -- 10.4 On the Relativity of Lengths and Times -- 10.5 Challenges to Einstein's Connection of Synchronization and Contraction -- 10.6 The Lorentz Transformations Derived by the Principle of Relativity and the Light Postulate -- 10.7 Lorentz Transformations Derived without the Light Postulate -- 10.8 Relativistic Addition Theorem for Velocities and Fizeau's experiment -- 10.9 Time Dilation -- 10.10 Clock Paradox and Twin Paradox -- 10.11 Magnet and Conductor Experiment -- 10.12 Relativity and the Light Quantum -- 10.13 The Mass of the Electron -- 11. The Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence -- 12 Kaufmann's Experiments -- Chapter C. Part Two -- 1 Biographical Sketch of Poincaré -- 1.1 A Mathematics Monster -- 1.2 Henri Poincaré and Paul Appell -- 1.3 The École Polytechnique -- 1.4 École des Mines -- 1.5 An Academic Career -- 1.6 Professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris -- 1.7 The Bureau des Longitudes -- 1.8 The 1900 Congresses -- 1.9 The End -- 2 Poincaré's Possible Influence on Einstein's Pathway toward Special Relativity -- 2.1 Poincaré's Dynamics of the Electron -- 2.2 The May 1905 Letters to Lorentz -- 2.3 Introducing the Problems -- 2.4 The Lorentz Transformations -- 2.5 Did Poincaré's Dynamics of the Electron Influence Einstein? -- 3 Did Poincaré Explore the Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence? -- 3.1. Poincaré 1900 - The "Hertzian Oscillator -- 3.2. Poincaré 1900 - The Fictitious Fluid -- 3.3. Lorentz's Response to Poincaré's 1900 Paper -- 3.4. Inseparability of Theorem of Conservation of Mass and of Energy -- 3.5. Inertia of Energy -- Chapter D. -- 1. Act One -- 1.1 1907 -- 1.2 1911.
2. Static Gravitational Field Theory -- 2.1 1912 -- 2.2 1912 -- 2.3 1912 -- 2.4 Mach's Ideas/Mach's Principle -- 3. Act Two -- 3.1 The Metric Tensor -- 3.2 The Zurich Notebook -- 4. Intermezzo -- 4.1 1913 -- 4.2 1913 -- 4.3 1913 -- 4.4 Rotation Metric -- 4.5 1914 -- 4.6 1914 -- 4.7 1914 -- 4.8 1914 -- 4.9 Einstein Loses Confidence in the Entwurf Theory -- 5. Act Three -- 5.1 1915 -- 5.2 Conservation of Energy-Momentum -- 5.3 The Newtonian Limit -- 5.4 Einstein Adopts ඥെࢍ ൌ 1 as a Coordinate Condition -- 5.5 1915 -- 5.6 1915 -- 5.7 The Schwarzschild Solution -- 6 1916 -- 6.1 1916 -- 6.2 1916 -- 6.3 1916 -- 6.4 1916-1918 -- 6.5 1916 -- 7 Einstein's Cosmological Model -- 7.1 The Cosmological Constant -- 7.2 Einstein Gives Up the Cosmological Constant -- Chapter E. -- 1 Einstein's Methodology and Creativity -- 1.1 Invention or Discovery? -- 1.2 The Significance of Music for Einstein -- 1.3 The Significance of a Wonder for Einstein -- 1.4 Einstein's Creativity -- 1.5 Einstein's Sounding Boards -- 1.6 The Principles of Relativity as Heuristic Principles -- 1.7 Theories of Principle and Constructive Theories -- 1.8 Principles Cannot Be Modified -- 1.9 Einstein is Guided by Heuristic Principles -- 1.10 Substantivalism versus Relationalism -- 2 Poincaré's Conventions and Creativity -- 2.1 Poincaré's Creativity -- 2.2 Poincaré's Conventionalism of Geometry -- 2.3 Poincaré's Fourth Geometry -- 2.4 Einstein's Response to Poincaré's Conventionalism of Geometry -- 2.5 Poincaré's Conventionalism of Principles (Classical Mechanics and Physics) -- Chapter F. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Documentary and Non-Documentary Biographies -- 2.1 Clark, Isaacson, Fölsing and Flückiger -- 2.2 Moszkowski's Einstein -- 2.3 Maja's Biography of Her Brother -- 2.4 Reiser's Einstein -- 2.5 Frank's Einstein -- 2.6 Seelig's Einstein -- 2.7 Vallentin's and Plesch's Einstein.
2.8 Herneck's Einstein -- 2.9 Helen Dukas's Recollections -- 2.10 Pais's Einstein -- 2.11 How to Cross-Reference the Documentary Biographies -- 3 Autobiographies, Memories and Popular Accounts -- 3.1 Einstein's Autobiography -- 3.2 Infeld's Autobiography and the Evolution of Physics -- 3.3 Einstein's Book On the Special and the General Theory of Relativity -- 3.4 Fantova's Journal of the Older Einstein -- 3.5 Minkowski, Sommerfeld and the BookThe Principle of Relativity -- 4 Primary Sources for the Historical Road that Led Einstein to Special and General Relativity -- 4.1 Special Relativity -- 4.2 The Kyoto Talk -- 4.3 Wertheimer's Interviews with Einstein -- 4.4 Shankland's Interviews with Einstein -- 4.5 Interviews with Einstein's Son, Hans Albert Einstein -- 4.6 Einstein's Notebooks and Manuscripts -- 5 Old Biographies of Poincaré -- References -- Notes -- Index.
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Weinstein Galina  
Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , [2017]
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Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / / Galina Weinstein
Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / / Galina Weinstein
Autore Weinstein Galina
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (660 pages)
Disciplina 530.078
Soggetto topico Physics - Experiments - History
Special relativity (Physics)
ISBN 9781527585157
9781443895125
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- The First Chapter (A) -- The Second Chapter (B) -- The Third Chapter (C) -- The Fourth Chapter (D) -- The Fifth Chapter (E) -- The Final Chapter (F) -- Chapter A. -- 1 Einstein's Parents and Sister Maja -- 2 The Move to Munich and the Electric Firm -- 3 Rebellious and Creative -- 4 Einstein Cannot Take Authority and Demands for Obedience -- 4.1 Primary School -- 4.2 Secondary School -- 5 Einstein Teaches Himself Natural Science and Philosophy -- 5.1 Max Talmud Recommends Bernstein and Kant -- 5.2 Einstein Reads a Small Geometry Book -- 5.3 Einstein Is Free in Italy -- 6 Secondary School in Aarau -- 7 Polytechnic in Zurich -- 7.1 Professors Weber and Pernet Turn On Einstein -- 7.2 Einstein Never Shows Up or Skips the Classes of Mathematicians -- 7.3 Einstein's Friends: Grossmann, Besso and Maric -- 7.4 Einstein's Residence in Zurich -- 8 Einstein Seeks a Position -- 8.1 The Rebel Graduate Einstein Is Rejected -- 8.2 Professor Weber Is Behind Einstein's Difficulties -- 8.3 Einstein Finds Temporary Positions and Grossmann Rescues Him -- 9 Physics Group -- 9.1 The Patent Office -- 9.2 Michele Besso, Joseph Sauter, Lucian Chavan and Heinrich Zangger -- 10 Philosophy Group -- 10.1 Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht -- 10.2 The Olympia Academy -- 10.3 The Reading List of the Academy -- 11 Annus Mirabilis -- 11.1 Letters to Habicht -- 11.2 Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers -- 12 German Scientists Respond to Einstein's Relativity Paper -- 12.1 Professor Max Planck Writes to Einstein -- 12.2 Max Laue Meets Einstein -- 13 Einstein Teaches His Three Friends at the University of Bern -- 13.1 Patent Clerk Rebels against Academic Rules -- 13.2 Jakob Johann Laub Meets Einstein in Bern -- 13.3 Einstein's Students: Besso and Chavan.
14 Einstein Leaves the Patent Office for his First Post in Zurich -- 14.1 A University Professor at Zurich -- 14.2 Einstein Invents with the Habicht Brothers -- 14.3 Einstein's First Lecture at the Salzburg Meeting -- 14.4 Zurich-Prague-Zurich-Berlin -- 14.5 Einstein as a Weirdly Shabby Dressed Genius -- Chapter B. -- 1 Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau's Experiment of 1851 -- 1.1 Emission and Wave Theories of Light -- 1.2 Arago and Fresnel -- 1.3 Fizeau's Water Tube Experiment of 1851 -- 1.4 Lorentz Derives Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient in his Electron Theory -- 2 The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 2.1 Maxwell's Letter to Todd -- 2.2 Michelson in Helmholtz's Lab -- 2.3 Michelson in Paris -- 2.4 Michelson Returns to Cleveland and Works with Morley -- 3 Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics -- 4 The Contraction Hypothesis -- 5 Variation of Mass with Velocity -- Chapter C. Part One -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Einstein Believes in the Ether -- 3 The Chasing a Light Beam Thought Experiment -- 4 Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment -- 4.1 Maxwell's Equations and Induction -- 4.2 What Prompted Einstein to Invent the Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment? -- 5 Ether Drift and Michelson and Morley's Experiment -- 5.1 Einstein Designs Ether Drift Experiments between 1899 and 1901 -- 5.2 Einstein's Different Statements as to the Role that Michelson's Experiment Played in his Development -- 5.3 Robert Shankland's Interviews with Einstein on Michelson's Experiments -- 6 Emission Theory and Ether Drift Experiments -- 6.1 Ritz's Emission Theory -- 6.2 Einstein's First Reaction to Ehrenfest's Paper -- 6.3 Einstein Falls into the Jungle -- 7 Einstein's Route to Special Relativity from 1895 to 1903-1904 -- 8 "The Step -- 9 Einstein's Steps Toward the "The Step -- 9.1 Five to Six Weeks between the Discovery and the Relativity Paper.
9.2 The Einstein-Besso Meeting -- 9.3 The Final Discovery within Five Weeks -- 10 The Relativity Paper -- 10.1 A "Rigid Body" and Contraction -- 10.2 1905 -- 10.3 Definition of Distant Simultaneity without Reference to Synchronized Clocks -- 10.4 On the Relativity of Lengths and Times -- 10.5 Challenges to Einstein's Connection of Synchronization and Contraction -- 10.6 The Lorentz Transformations Derived by the Principle of Relativity and the Light Postulate -- 10.7 Lorentz Transformations Derived without the Light Postulate -- 10.8 Relativistic Addition Theorem for Velocities and Fizeau's experiment -- 10.9 Time Dilation -- 10.10 Clock Paradox and Twin Paradox -- 10.11 Magnet and Conductor Experiment -- 10.12 Relativity and the Light Quantum -- 10.13 The Mass of the Electron -- 11. The Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence -- 12 Kaufmann's Experiments -- Chapter C. Part Two -- 1 Biographical Sketch of Poincaré -- 1.1 A Mathematics Monster -- 1.2 Henri Poincaré and Paul Appell -- 1.3 The École Polytechnique -- 1.4 École des Mines -- 1.5 An Academic Career -- 1.6 Professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris -- 1.7 The Bureau des Longitudes -- 1.8 The 1900 Congresses -- 1.9 The End -- 2 Poincaré's Possible Influence on Einstein's Pathway toward Special Relativity -- 2.1 Poincaré's Dynamics of the Electron -- 2.2 The May 1905 Letters to Lorentz -- 2.3 Introducing the Problems -- 2.4 The Lorentz Transformations -- 2.5 Did Poincaré's Dynamics of the Electron Influence Einstein? -- 3 Did Poincaré Explore the Inertial Mass-Energy Equivalence? -- 3.1. Poincaré 1900 - The "Hertzian Oscillator -- 3.2. Poincaré 1900 - The Fictitious Fluid -- 3.3. Lorentz's Response to Poincaré's 1900 Paper -- 3.4. Inseparability of Theorem of Conservation of Mass and of Energy -- 3.5. Inertia of Energy -- Chapter D. -- 1. Act One -- 1.1 1907 -- 1.2 1911.
2. Static Gravitational Field Theory -- 2.1 1912 -- 2.2 1912 -- 2.3 1912 -- 2.4 Mach's Ideas/Mach's Principle -- 3. Act Two -- 3.1 The Metric Tensor -- 3.2 The Zurich Notebook -- 4. Intermezzo -- 4.1 1913 -- 4.2 1913 -- 4.3 1913 -- 4.4 Rotation Metric -- 4.5 1914 -- 4.6 1914 -- 4.7 1914 -- 4.8 1914 -- 4.9 Einstein Loses Confidence in the Entwurf Theory -- 5. Act Three -- 5.1 1915 -- 5.2 Conservation of Energy-Momentum -- 5.3 The Newtonian Limit -- 5.4 Einstein Adopts ඥെࢍ ൌ 1 as a Coordinate Condition -- 5.5 1915 -- 5.6 1915 -- 5.7 The Schwarzschild Solution -- 6 1916 -- 6.1 1916 -- 6.2 1916 -- 6.3 1916 -- 6.4 1916-1918 -- 6.5 1916 -- 7 Einstein's Cosmological Model -- 7.1 The Cosmological Constant -- 7.2 Einstein Gives Up the Cosmological Constant -- Chapter E. -- 1 Einstein's Methodology and Creativity -- 1.1 Invention or Discovery? -- 1.2 The Significance of Music for Einstein -- 1.3 The Significance of a Wonder for Einstein -- 1.4 Einstein's Creativity -- 1.5 Einstein's Sounding Boards -- 1.6 The Principles of Relativity as Heuristic Principles -- 1.7 Theories of Principle and Constructive Theories -- 1.8 Principles Cannot Be Modified -- 1.9 Einstein is Guided by Heuristic Principles -- 1.10 Substantivalism versus Relationalism -- 2 Poincaré's Conventions and Creativity -- 2.1 Poincaré's Creativity -- 2.2 Poincaré's Conventionalism of Geometry -- 2.3 Poincaré's Fourth Geometry -- 2.4 Einstein's Response to Poincaré's Conventionalism of Geometry -- 2.5 Poincaré's Conventionalism of Principles (Classical Mechanics and Physics) -- Chapter F. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Documentary and Non-Documentary Biographies -- 2.1 Clark, Isaacson, Fölsing and Flückiger -- 2.2 Moszkowski's Einstein -- 2.3 Maja's Biography of Her Brother -- 2.4 Reiser's Einstein -- 2.5 Frank's Einstein -- 2.6 Seelig's Einstein -- 2.7 Vallentin's and Plesch's Einstein.
2.8 Herneck's Einstein -- 2.9 Helen Dukas's Recollections -- 2.10 Pais's Einstein -- 2.11 How to Cross-Reference the Documentary Biographies -- 3 Autobiographies, Memories and Popular Accounts -- 3.1 Einstein's Autobiography -- 3.2 Infeld's Autobiography and the Evolution of Physics -- 3.3 Einstein's Book On the Special and the General Theory of Relativity -- 3.4 Fantova's Journal of the Older Einstein -- 3.5 Minkowski, Sommerfeld and the BookThe Principle of Relativity -- 4 Primary Sources for the Historical Road that Led Einstein to Special and General Relativity -- 4.1 Special Relativity -- 4.2 The Kyoto Talk -- 4.3 Wertheimer's Interviews with Einstein -- 4.4 Shankland's Interviews with Einstein -- 4.5 Interviews with Einstein's Son, Hans Albert Einstein -- 4.6 Einstein's Notebooks and Manuscripts -- 5 Old Biographies of Poincaré -- References -- Notes -- Index.
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Weinstein Galina  
Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , [2017]
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Einstein's relativity and beyond : new symmetry approaches / Jong-Ping Hsu
Einstein's relativity and beyond : new symmetry approaches / Jong-Ping Hsu
Autore Hsu, Jong-Ping
Pubbl/distr/stampa Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2000
Descrizione fisica xxi, 418 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Disciplina 530.11
Collana Advanced series on theoretical physical science ; v. 7
Soggetto (Persona) Einstein, Albert <1879-1955>
Soggetto topico Relativity (Physics)
Symmetry (Physics)
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time
ISBN 9810238886
Classificazione LC QC173.65
53.1.5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991004013659707536
Hsu, Jong-Ping  
Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2000
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Energy and geometry [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to deformed special relativity / / Fabio Cardone, Roberto Mignani
Energy and geometry [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to deformed special relativity / / Fabio Cardone, Roberto Mignani
Autore Cardone Fabio
Pubbl/distr/stampa River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (161 p.)
Disciplina 530.11
Altri autori (Persone) MignaniRoberto
Collana World Scientific series in contemporary chemical physics
Soggetto topico Special relativity (Physics)
Generalized spaces
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-281-87695-X
9786611876951
981-256-537-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Dedication; Preface; Contents; I Generalizing Special Relativity; 1 An Axiomatic View to Special Relativity; 2 Deformed Minkowski Space-Time; 3 Description of Interactions by Energy-Dependent Metrics; II Relativity in a Deformed Space-Time; 4 Generalized Principle of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations; 5 Relativistic Kinematics in a Deformed Minkowski Space; 6 Wave Propagation in a Deformed Space-Time; III Metric Description of Fundamental Interactions; 7 Nonlocal Effects in Electromagnetic Interaction; 8 Energy-Dependent Metric for Gravitation; 9 Weak Interaction; 10 Strong Interaction
11 Metrics of InteractionsIV Breakdown of Local Lorentz Invariance; 12 Experimental Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance; 13 A New Electromagnetic Test of LLI; 14 The Gravitational Mass of Electron from Geometry; 15 Toward the Fifth Dimension; References; Index
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Cardone Fabio  
River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2004
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Energy and geometry [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to deformed special relativity / / Fabio Cardone, Roberto Mignani
Energy and geometry [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to deformed special relativity / / Fabio Cardone, Roberto Mignani
Autore Cardone Fabio
Pubbl/distr/stampa River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (161 p.)
Disciplina 530.11
Altri autori (Persone) MignaniRoberto
Collana World Scientific series in contemporary chemical physics
Soggetto topico Special relativity (Physics)
Generalized spaces
ISBN 1-281-87695-X
9786611876951
981-256-537-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Dedication; Preface; Contents; I Generalizing Special Relativity; 1 An Axiomatic View to Special Relativity; 2 Deformed Minkowski Space-Time; 3 Description of Interactions by Energy-Dependent Metrics; II Relativity in a Deformed Space-Time; 4 Generalized Principle of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations; 5 Relativistic Kinematics in a Deformed Minkowski Space; 6 Wave Propagation in a Deformed Space-Time; III Metric Description of Fundamental Interactions; 7 Nonlocal Effects in Electromagnetic Interaction; 8 Energy-Dependent Metric for Gravitation; 9 Weak Interaction; 10 Strong Interaction
11 Metrics of InteractionsIV Breakdown of Local Lorentz Invariance; 12 Experimental Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance; 13 A New Electromagnetic Test of LLI; 14 The Gravitational Mass of Electron from Geometry; 15 Toward the Fifth Dimension; References; Index
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Cardone Fabio  
River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2004
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