Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein / Olivier Darrigol,...

Date : 2022

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-19-284953-3

EAN : 9780192849533

Relativité (physique) -- Histoire

Classification Dewey : 530.11

Darrigol, Olivier (1955-....) (Auteur / author)

Relation : Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein / Olivier Darrigol / Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021

Résumé / Abstract : This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteeth-century mechanics, optics and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century.