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Henri Poincare: Electrons to Special Relativity - Translation of Selected Papers and Discussion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Henri Poincare: Electrons to Special Relativity - Translation of Selected Papers and Discussion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Produced by an award-winning translator of Henri Poincare, this
book contains translations of several seminal articles by Poincare
and discusses the experimental and theoretical investigations of
electrons that form their context. In the 1950s, a dispute ignited
about the origin of the theory of special relativity and thrust
considerable notoriety on a paper written by Henri Poincare in
1905. Accordingly, Part I presents the relevant translations of
Poincare's work showing that radiation carries momentum and the
covariance of the equations of electrodynamics, the continuity
equation for charge, and the spacetime interval. Part II then
discusses investigations by Thomson, Becquerel, and Kaufmann of
electrons in diverse contexts; contributions of Abraham, Lorentz
and Poincare to a theory of electrons that includes Lorentz
transformations and explains the dependence of mass on velocity;
and finally, Poincare's exploration of the relativity principle,
electron stability, and gravitation while rejecting absolute motion
(ether) and an electromagnetic origin of mass. Part III contains
the 1904 article by H. A. Lorentz presenting his
transformations.This book will be a fascinating read to
graduate-level students, physicists, and science historians who are
interested in the development of electrodynamics and the classical,
relativistic theory of electrons at the beginning of the 20th
century.
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