Screen LibrarySpecial theory of relativity /
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1970. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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The Commonwealth and International Library./ Selected Reading in Physics
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080069951 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483137049 148313704X |
| Index Number: | QC6 |
| CLC: | O412.1 |
| Contents: | pt. I. Introduction: 1632-1905 -- Einstein's contribution -- Elementary consequences of the Lorentz transformation -- Applications in quantum theory -- pt. II. The relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous either / by Albert A. Michelson -- On the kinematic and mechanical modes of representation of the activity of the aether from Aether and Matter / by J. Larmor -- Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light / by H.A. Lorentz -- The dynamics of the electron / by H. Poincare -- On the electrodynamics of moving bodies / by A. Einstein -- On the electric effect of rotating a magnetic insulator in a magnetic field / by Marjorie Wilson and H.A. Wilson -- Fresnel's coefficient for light of different colours / by Professor P. Zeeman -- The quantum theory of the electron / by P.A.M. Dirac -- Energies of cosmic-ray particles / by Carl D. Anderson -- On unitary Representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group / by E. Wigner. |