Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein  -  Olivier Darrigol

KORTE INHOUD

Three quarters of a century elapsed between Ampère's definition of electrodynamics and Einstein's reform of the concepts of space and time. The two events occurred in utterly different worlds: the French Academy of Sciences of the 1820s seems very remote from the Bern patent office of the early 1900s, and the forces between two electric currents quite foreign to the optical synchronization of clocks. Yet Ampère's electrodynamics and Einstein's relativity are firmly connected through an historical chain invo...
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2000 Uitgever: Oxford University Press Usa 552 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0198505949 ISBN-13: 9780198505945