Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2025

0198974981 / 9780198974987

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Paperback. Motion is always relative to something. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an abstract space, or is it an imagined frame? Do the laws of physics depend on the choice of reference? Is there a choice for which the laws are simplest? Is this choice unique? Is there a physical cause for the choice made?These questions traverse the history of modern physics from Galileo to Einstein. The answers involved Galilean relativity, Newton'sabsolute space, the purely relational concepts of Descartes, Leibniz, and Mach, and many forgotten uses of relativity principles in mechanics, optics, and electrodynamicsuntil the relativitytheories of Poincare, Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue radically redefined space and time to satisfy universal kinds of relativity.This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-termhistory, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it bringsunprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew. This book is a full, long-term history of relativity thinking in physics, from Galileo's early reflections on the proper reference of mechanical motion to Einstein's exploitation of relativity principles in his theories of special and general relativity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein (Paperback)
Autore
Olivier Darrigol
Editore
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0198974981
ISBN 13
9780198974987

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