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Nineteenth-century aether theories /
Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories focuses on aether theories. The selection first offers information on the development of aether theories by taking into consideration the positions of Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young, and Augustin Fresnel. The text then examines the elastic solid aether. Concerns...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1972]
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| Edición: | [1st ed.]. |
| Colección: | Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories focuses on aether theories. The selection first offers information on the development of aether theories by taking into consideration the positions of Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young, and Augustin Fresnel. The text then examines the elastic solid aether. Concerns include Green's aether theory, MacCullagh's aether theory, and Kelvin's aether theory. The text also reviews Lorentz' aether and electron theory. The development of Lorentz' ideas of the stagnant aether and electrons; Lorentz' theorem of corresponding states and its development; and Lorentz' respons. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121). |
| ISBN: | 9781483158280 1483158284 |