|
![]() |
|||
|
||||
OverviewThat Einstein's insight was profound goes without saying. A strildng indication of its depth is the abundance of unexpected riches that others have found in his work - riches reserved for those daring to give serious attention to implications that at first sight seem unphysical. A famous instance is that of the de Broglie waves. If, in ac cordance with Fermat's principle, a photon followed the path of least time, de Broglie felt that the photon should have some phys ical means of exploring alternative paths to determine which of them would in fact require the least time. For this and other rea sons, he assumed that the photon had a nonvanishing rest mass, and, in accordance with Einstein's E = h v, he endowed the photon with a spread-out pulsation of the form A Sin(27TEt/h) in the photon's rest frame. According to the theory of relativity such a pulsation, every where simultaneous in a given frame, seemed absurd as a physical entity. Nevertheless de Broglie took it seriously, applied a Lorentz transformation in the orthodox relativistic tradition, and found that the simultaneous pulsation was transformed into a wave whose phase velocity was finite but greater than c while its group velocity was that of the particle. By thus pursuing Einsteinian concepts into thickets that others had not dared to penetrate, de Broglie laid the brilliant foundations of wave mechanics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yakov TerletskiiPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1968 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.219kg ISBN: 9781489926760ISBN 10: 1489926763 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 09 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsI. The Name and Content of the Theory of Relativity.- II. Einstein’s Postulates and the Lorentz Transformations.- III. Paradoxes in Kinematics.- IV. Paradoxes in Relativistic Dynamics.- V. Are Velocities Higher than the Velocity of Light Possible?.- VI. Negative and Imaginary Proper Masses.- Literature Cited.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |