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Aichelburg, Peter C |
Albert Einstein |
I01052 |
1979 |
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Mehra, Jagdish |
Einstein, Hilbert, and The Theory of Gravitation |
I01044 |
1974 |
eBook |
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| 323 |
Garber, Elizabeth |
The Language of Physics |
I00992 |
1999 |
eBook |
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| 324 |
GOLDBERG |
Understanding Relativity |
I00616 |
1984 |
eBook |
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| 325 |
Born, Max |
Physics in My Generation |
I00589 |
1968 |
eBook |
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| 326 |
MILLER |
Frontiers of Physics: 1900???1911 |
I00542 |
1986 |
eBook |
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| 327 |
Majer, Ulrich |
Reflections on Spacetime |
I00259 |
1995 |
eBook |
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| 328 |
Cantor, G.N |
Faraday |
I00210 |
1991 |
eBook |
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| 329 |
Rosser, G |
Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism |
I00132 |
1997 |
eBook |
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| 330 |
Jasjeet Singh Bagla (ed.) |
Gravity and the Quantum: Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity |
026216 |
2017 |
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| Title | Einstein, Hilbert, and The Theory of Gravitation : Historical Origins of General Relativity Theory |
| Author(s) | Mehra, Jagdish |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1974. |
| Description | 96 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Some time ago I published a small piece * dealing with a charming little essay on 'the state of ether in magnetic fields', which the sixteen-year-old Einstein had written while he was awaiting admission to the E. T. H. in Zurich. This paper sought to trace the continuity between Einstein's early interest in electrodynamics and his later work on the special and general relativity theories. On reading this paper, Professor Eugene Wigner asked me whether David Hilbert had not independently discovered the field equations of gravitation. ** His impression from his stay in Gottingen (where Wigner had been Hilbert's assistant for one year in the late nineteen-twenties) was that Hilbert had indeed done so, and he asked me if it was true. I replied to Professor Wigner about Hilbert's contribution to the theory of gravitation. t He kindly encouraged me to expand my account to deal with the intricate and exciting details of the early years in the formulation of the general relativity theory of gravitation. This is what I have sought to do in this study. Albert Einstein created the general relativity theory of gravitation and dominated its development through the rest of his life. His early work on the theory of gravitation, from 1912 to 1916, had the drama of high adventure. It culminated in the establishment of its foundations which have remained unassailed by the theoretical and experimental work of succeeding decades |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401021944 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
6. Philosophy and science
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8. PHYSICS
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| Title | The Language of Physics : The Calculus and the Development of Theoretical Physics in Europe, 1750???1914 |
| Author(s) | Garber, Elizabeth |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1999. |
| Description | XIX, 399 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. This study encompasses engagements across discipline boundaries and many nations rom the ear of Euler and Bernoulli o that of Hilbert and Einstein. At all times physicists and mathematicians retained their distinct sets of disciplinary standards and goals. Interactions within historical ears are handled using the standards of the time to define mathematics and physics. In this context, the works of Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Jacobi, William Thomson, Maxwell, Helmholtz, and many others are discussed, and by 1870, it is evident that the essentials of modern theoretical physics are in place. The epilogue, spanning the decades from 1870 to the First World War, deals with the decline of these interactions and the building of new connections. It is particularly significant that these new patterns of interactions became paradigmatic for the rest of the twentieth century. The unique perspectives concerning the history of theoretical physics will undoubtedly cause some raised eyebrows, as the author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461217664 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Historical linguistics
4. HISTORY
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. History of Mathematical Sciences
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. Mathematical Methods in Physics
9. MATHEMATICS
10. PHYSICS
11. Physics, general
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| Title | Understanding Relativity : Origin and Impact of a Scientific Revolution |
| Author(s) | GOLDBERG |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1984. |
| Description | XVII, 494 p. 26 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The central subject matter of this book is Einstein's special theory of relativiry. While it is a book that is written primarily for a lay audience this does not necessarily mean an audience not versed in the ways of doing science. Rather, this book is written for anyone wishing to consider the nature of the scientific enterprise: where ideas come from, how they become established and accepted, what the relationships are among theories, predictions, and measurements, or the relationship between ideas in a scientific theory and the values held to be important within the larger culture. Some readers will find it strange that I raise any of these issues. It is a common view in our culture that the status of knowledge within science is totally different from the status of knowledge in other areas of human endeavor. The word "science" stems from the Latin word meaning "to know" and indeed, knowledge which scientists acquire in their work is commonly held to be certain, unyielding, and absolute. Consider how we use the adjective "scientific. " There are investors and there are scientific investors. There are socialists and there are scientific socialists. There are exterminators and there are scientific exterminators. We all know how the modifier "scientific" inttudes in our daily life. It is the purpose of this book to challenge the belief that scientific knowledge is different from other kinds of knowledge |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468467321 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. PHYSICS
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| Title | Physics in My Generation |
| Author(s) | Born, Max |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 1968. |
| Description | VII, 172 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Professor Born, one of the most distinguished physicists of our time, has selected some of his most popular writings covering a period of thirty years, framed between his introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1921) and the postscript to the American edition of The Restless Universe (1951). It includes several discussions of Einstein's work, a short autobiography and articles dealing with the philosophical background of physics and its revolutionary changes during Professor Born's lifetime. Each treatment of a problem illuminates it from a different angle - all of them from a personal point of view |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461575870 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
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| Title | Frontiers of Physics: 1900???1911 : Selected Essays |
| Author(s) | MILLER |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1986. |
| Description | XXVI, 294 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | P. W. Bridgman and the Special Theory oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati< him" (1962) for the reader "who feels the need to stand back a little for a critical scrutiny of what he has really got" (SP, p. 3). * This was his personal trademark as physicist and philoso?? pher and it is present everywhere in Bridgman's precis of special relativity theory. The reissue of Sophisticate's Primer is particularly wel?? come for it exhibits a quest for clarity in foundations in the style of Ernst Mach and Henri Poincare, in whose philo- ??? N.B. Papers and books are here cited as follows. Bridgman (1927) refers to Bridgman's book The Logic of Modern Physics in the bibliography. Cross-references to Sophisticate's Primer are indicated with the code (SP, p. "'). Bridgman's extant manuscripts are on deposit at the Harvard University Archives, and here cited by date, for example (MS 2 August 1959, p .... ). Some of the manuscripts were written over a period of days, with sequential paging, with the actual dates indicated. Full citations are given in the bibliography. I am grateful to the Harvard University Archives for permission to quote from these materials, and to Bridgman's daughter, Mrs. Jane Koopman, for permitting me to quote from the draft manuscripts of Sophisticate's Primer, which will be deposited in the Harvard Archives. Reprinted from P. W. Bridgman. Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity, Second Edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983 |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468405484 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
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3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
4. PHYSICS
5. Physics, general
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| Title | Reflections on Spacetime : Foundations, Philosophy, History |
| Author(s) | Majer, Ulrich;Schmidt, Heinz-J??rgen |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1995. |
| Description | III, 165 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | REFLECTIONS ON SPACETIME - FOUNDATIONS, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY During the academic year 1992/93, an interdisciplinary research group constituted itself at the Zentrum fUr interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany, under the title 'Semantical Aspects of Spacetime Theories', in which philosophers and physicists worked on topics in the interpretation and history of relativity theory. The present issue consists of contributions resulting from material presented and discussed in the group during the course of that year. The scope of the papers ranges from rather specialised issues arising from general relativity such as the problem of referential indeterminacy, to foundational questions regarding spacetime in the work of Carnap, Weyl and Hilbert. It is well known that the General Theory of Relativity (GTR) admits spacetime models which are 'exotic' in the sense that observers could travel into their own past. This poses a number of problems for the physical interpretation of GTR which are also relevant in the philosophy of spacetime. It is not enough to exclude these exotic models simply by stating that we live in a non-exotic universe, because it might be possible to "operate time machines" by actively changing the topology of the future part of spacetime. In his contribution, Earman first reviews the attempts of physicists to prove "chronology protection theorems" (CPTs) which exclude the operation of time machines under reasonable assumptions |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401728720 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GEOMETRY
5. GRAVITATION
6. HISTORY
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
10. Philosophy and science
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. PHYSICS
13. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism |
| Author(s) | Rosser, G |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1997. |
| Description | XVIII, 426 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The aim of this book is to interpret all the laws of classical electromagnetism in a modern coherent way. In a typical undergraduate course using vector analysis, the students finally end up with Maxwell's equations, when they are often exhausted after a very long course, in which full discussions are properly given of the full range of applications of individual laws, each of which is important in its own right. As a result, many students do not appreciate how limited is the experimental evidence on the basis of which Maxwell's equations are normally developed and they do not always appre?? ciate the underlying unity of classical electromagnetism, before they go on to graduate courses in which Maxwell's equations are taken as axiomatic. This book is designed to be used between such an undergraduate course and graduate courses. It is written by an experimental physicist and is intended to be used by physicists, electrical engineers and applied mathematicians |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401719506 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
5. ELECTRODYNAMICS
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. MATHEMATICS
9. Mathematics, general
10. OPTICS
11. Philosophy and science
12. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
13. PHYSICS
14. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Gravity and the Quantum: Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity |
| Author(s) | Jasjeet Singh Bagla (ed.);Sunu Engineer (ed.) |
| Publication | Switzerland, Springer, 2017. |
| Description | XII, 494 p. 54 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides a compilation of in-depth articles and reviews on key topics within gravitation, cosmology and related issues. It is a celebratory volume dedicated to Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan ("Paddy"), the renowned relativist and cosmologist from IUCAA, India, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The authors, many of them leaders of their fields, are all colleagues, collaborators and former students of Paddy, who have worked with him over a research career spanning more than four decades. Paddy is a scientist of diverse interests, who attaches great importance to teaching. With this in mind, the aim of this compilation is to provide an accessible pedagogic introduction to, and overview of, various important topics in cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics. As such it will be an invaluable resource for scientists, graduate students and also advanced undergraduates seeking to broaden their horizons |
| Contents Note | J. Alcaniz et al. Measuring baryon acoustic oscillations with angular two-point correlation function -- C. M. Boily Resonant disruption of binary stars by a catalytic black hole -- Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao Mechanics of Apparent Horizon in Two Dimensional Dilaton Gravity -- Sumanta Chakraborty Boundary Terms of the Einstein-Hilbert Action -- Timothy Clifton and John Barrow Decay of the Cosmic Vacuum Energy -- Naresh Dadhich Understanding General Relativity after 100 years: A matter of perspective -- Tevian Dray Piecewise Conserved Quantities -- Pankaj Joshi Self-Similarity and Criticality in Gravitational Collapse -- Claus Kiefer Notes on semiclassical Weyl gravity -- Dawood Kothawala Accelerated Observers, Thermal Entropy, and Spacetime Curvature -- Donald Lynden-Bell A local stress tensor for gravity Fields -- Michele Maggiore Nonlocal Infrared Modifications of Gravity: A Review -- Ayan Mukhopadhyay Emergence of gravity and RG flow -- S. Modak Modelling non-paradoxical loss of information in black hole evaporation -- J.V. Narlikar Relativistic Paths : A Feynman Problem -- Martin Rees Thoughts on 50 years in astrophysics and cosmology and on what comes next -- Sudipta Sarkar Area Theorem: General Relativity and Beyond -- Shankarnarayanan What Are the Atoms of Space Time? -- Suprit Singh From Quantum to Classical in the Sky -- T.P. Singh Classical and quantum: a conflict of interest -- Lee Smolin Four principles for quantum gravity -- L. Sriramkurar What do detectors detect? -- Urjit A Yajnik Stability longevity and all that : false vacua and topological defects |
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| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
2. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
3. DEDICATEE - THANU PADMANABHAN
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. PADMANABHAN, THANU - DEDICATEE
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