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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1972]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
| Series: | Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121). |
| ISBN: | 9781483158280 1483158284 |