Henri Poincare: Electrons to Special Relativity: Translation of Selected Papers and Discussion

Bruce D Popp

285 pages, parution le 05/08/2021

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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.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.
[NOTE:] The Part I TOC is included in the Word folder. The additional Part II and III contents must be added to the TOC based on the Part I TOC layout and the Chapter file names.Bruce D. Popp is an ATA-certified translator for French into English with a BA in physics from Cornell University and a PhD in astrophysics from Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 2017 S. Edmund Berger Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation; he was awarded the prize for his first book, a translation from French into English of The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics by Henri Poincare (Springer 2017).

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Bruce D Popp
Parution	05/08/2021
Nb. de pages	285
EAN13	9783030480417

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