Nineteenth-century aether theories
by
 
Schaffner, Kenneth F.

Title
Nineteenth-century aether theories

Author
Schaffner, Kenneth F.

ISBN
9781483158280

Personal Author
Schaffner, Kenneth F.

Edition
[1st ed.].

Publication Information
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, [1972]

Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)

Series
The Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics
 
Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics.

Contents
Letter from Augustin Fresnel to Fraņcois Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics.--On the aberration of light, by G.G. Stokes.--On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether, by A.A. Michelson and E.W. Morley.--On the laws of the reflexion and refraction of light at the common surface of two non-crystallized media, by G. Green.--An essay towards a dynamical theory of crystalline reflexion and refraction (sections 1 and 3) by J. MacCullagh.--On a gyrostatic adynamic constitution for ether, by W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin).--On the electromagnetic theory of the reflection and refraction of light (an extract) by G.F. Fitzgerald.--The rotational ether in its application to electromagnetism, by O. Heaviside.--Aether and matter (sections 49-54, 102-116), by J. Larmor.--An inquiry into electrical and optical phenomena in moving bodies (introduction) by H.A. Lorentz.--Simplified theory of ical electrical and optical phenomena in moving systems, by H.A. Lorentz. ical.

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Ether (Space)
 
Ether (Espace)
 
SCIENCE -- Energy.
 
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
 
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
 
Ether (Space) (OCoLC)fst00915803
 
Äther (DE-588)4000636-0
 
Éther (espace) -- 19e siècle.
 
Ether.

Genre
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080156743


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