Search results

Create the page "English physicists" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

• Lorentz ether theory
  ...the relative motion of matter in relation to the ether. And although most physicists had other views, Poincaré in 1900<ref group=A name=relation>Poincaré (190 ...and we had said that nothing could constrain us to abandon it. Today some physicists want to adopt a new convention. It is not that they are constrained to do s
  74 KB (11,386 words) - 12:43, 7 July 2017
• Gravitational redshift
  ...hich must account for the gravitational redshift in its timing system, and physicists have analyzed timing data from the GPS to confirm other tests. When the fir |title=The system of the world (English translation 1809)
  22 KB (3,270 words) - 20:15, 4 February 2018
• Isaac Newton
  {{Use British English|date=November 2012}} | nationality = English
  109 KB (15,996 words) - 15:04, 19 July 2017
• History of special relativity
  ...y"? --> 60&nbsp;km/s different in the northern winter than summer). So the physicists were confronted with two seemingly contradictory experiments: the 1886-expe Other physicists besides Lorentz and Larmor also tried to develop a consistent model of elec
  130 KB (18,278 words) - 13:48, 14 February 2019
• David Tombe
  ...of the constituent electron-positron dipoles. Despite the fact that modern physicists deny the reality of centrifugal force, it is actually crucial to the unders ...d for publication in Bern, Switzerland, on 30th June 1905. Translated into English, the title of this paper is ''On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies'', an
  42 KB (5,932 words) - 16:23, 27 March 2024
• Henri Poincaré
  ...=252–278}}. See also the [http://www.physicsinsights.org/poincare-1900.pdf English translation]</ref> ...=dmy-all }}. See also [http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www English translation].</ref> The Hertzian oscillator loses mass in the emission proc
  73 KB (10,374 words) - 11:55, 7 July 2017
• Hubble's law
  ...f>Friedman, A: Über die Krümmung des Raumes, Z. Phys. 10 (1922), 377–386. (English translation in: Gen. Rel. Grav. 31 (1999), 1991–2000.)</ref> Then [[Georg A decade before Hubble made his observations, a number of [[physicists]] and [[mathematicians]] had established a consistent theory of the relatio
  62 KB (9,085 words) - 20:13, 4 February 2018
• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...ing directly a first-order 0.01% change in the speed of light. A number of physicists therefore attempted to make measurements of indirect first-order effects no ...ble. But the experiment gave a negative result — a fact very perplexing to physicists. Lorentz and FitzGerald rescued the theory from this difficulty by assuming
  82 KB (12,123 words) - 14:58, 19 July 2017
• Lorentz transformation
  Many physicists—including [[Woldemar Voigt]], [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph Larmor]], a ...avariant components]] respectively,<ref>{{cite book |title=Mathematics for Physicists |first1=Philippe |last1=Dennery |first2=André |last2=Krzywicki |publisher=
  97 KB (14,188 words) - 15:44, 20 July 2017

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)