Autore	Hofmann Birgit
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Logos : , : Verlag Berlin, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (218 pages)
Disciplina	530.078
Soggetto topico	Physics - Experiments
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-8325-9756-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ger
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910467438103321

Autore	Cassidy David C. <1945->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lausanne : , : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (835 pages)
Disciplina	530.078
Soggetto topico	Physics
ISBN	2-8323-2149-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	fre
Nota di contenuto	Couverture -- Préface -- Table des matières -- Partie 1: Matière et mouvement -- Prologue de la première partie -- 1: Entrée en matière: le mouvement -- 2 Mouvement des planètes -- 3 Comprendrele mouvement -- 4 Théorie unifiée de Newton -- 5 Conservation de la matière et du mouvement -- 6 Dynamique de la chaleur -- 7 La chaleur: une question de mouvement -- 8 Phénomènes ondulatoires -- 9 Einstein et la théorie de la relativité -- Partie 2: Champs et atomes -- Prologue de la deuxième partie -- 10 Électricité et magnétisme -- 11 L'ère de l'électricité -- 12 Ondes électromagnétiques -- 13 Exploration de l'atome -- 14 Modèle quantique de l'atome -- 15 Mécanique quantique -- 16 État solide -- 17 Exploration du noyau -- 18 Le noyau et les applications de la physique nucléaire -- Bibliographie -- Crédit des illustrations.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910789307103321

Autore	LANDAU, Rubin H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : John Wiley, c1997
Descrizione fisica	XXVIII, 520 p. : ill. ; 20 cm + floppy-disk
Disciplina	530.078
Altri autori (Persone)	PAEZ MEJIA, Manuel José
Soggetto non controllato	Fisica Elaboratori elettronici Fisica matematica
ISBN	0-471-11590-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-990000332480203316

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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795870603321

Autore	Malthe-Sørenssen Anders
Edizione	[1st ed. 2015.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XIII, 590 p. 256 illus., 180 illus. in color.)
Disciplina	530.078
Collana	Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Soggetto topico	Mechanics Physics Classical Mechanics Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation Mathematical Methods in Physics
ISBN	3-319-19596-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- Getting started with programming -- Units and measurement -- Motion in one dimension -- Forces in one dimension -- Motion in two and three dimensions -- Forces in two and three dimensions -- Constrained motion -- Forces and constrained motion -- Work -- Energy -- Momentum, impulse, and collisions -- Multiparticle systems -- Rotational motion -- Rotation of rigid bodies -- Dynamics of rigid bodies -- Proofs -- Solutions -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910300413903321