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• Preface.- Author's Notes to the Reader.- Cast of Characters.- Introduction.- Electrodynamics: 1890-1905.- Einstein's Philosophic Viewpoint in 1905.- An Analysis of Einstein's Introductory Comments to "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper".- Simultaneity and Time.- Length and Time are Relative Quantities.- The Relativistic Transformations.- The Relativity of Length and Time.- The Theorem of Addition of Velocities.- The Relativity of the Electric and Magnetic Fields.- Doppler's Principle and Stellar Aberration.- Light Quanta, Radiation, and Relativity.- On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.- Epilogue.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.
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This book analyzes one of the three great papers Einstein published in 1905, each of which would alter forever the field it dealt with. The second of these papers, 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies', had an impact in a much broader field than electrodynamics: it established what Einstein sometimes referred to (after 1906) as the 'so-called Theory of Relativity'. Miller uses the paper to provide a window into the intense intellectual struggles of physicists in the first decade of the 20th century: the interplay between physical theory and empirical data, the fiercely held notions that could not be articulated clearly or verified experimentally, the great intellectual investment in existing theories, data, and interpretations - and associated intellectual inertia - and the drive to the long-sought- for unification of the sciences. Since its original publication, this book has become a standard reference and sourcebook for the history and philosophy of science; however, it can equally well serve as a text in the history of ideas or of twentieth-century philosophy. From reviews of the previous edition: "Miller' has written a superb, perhaps definitive, historical study of Einstein's special theory of relativity...One comes away from the book with a respect for both the creative genius of the man and his nerve: he simply brushed aside much of the work that was going on around him' - "The New Yorker".
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• Radioactive Waste Disposal.- The Response Matrix Method.- Finite Element Approximation to the Even-Parity Transport Equation.- Advances in Two-Phase Flow Instrumentation.- Bayesian Methods in Risk Assessment.
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The Editors take pleasure in presenting Volume 13 of this annual review series, consisting, as usual, of author- itative reviews of timely developments in the technical fields of nuclear engineering, science, and teechnology. No one in the community we try to serve in a post- Harrisburg era will need convincing of the relevance of the first two items to be mentioned from the volume. Instru- mentation for two-phase flow measurements, by Banerjee and Lahey, has applicability in the engineering research labor- atory and to power reactors; the U. S. LWR still remains the dominant power reactor type and seems likely to retain its hold if only through the capital of existing plants this century. Messrs. Bohm, Closs, and Kuhn, however, have a longer time scale to respect as they view for us the prospects of nuclear waste disposal from a European viewpoint. They bring out nicely the political aspects that cannot be divorced from technical considerations in this area, or in the more militant terms of confrontation, in this arena, perhaps. We are pleased to carry in this volume two complemen- tary papers on mathematical methods in nuclear engineering.
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• Introduction
• Highlights of 25 years of physics at CERN / L. van Hove, M. Jacob
• Physics and technique of stochastic cooling / D. Möhl ... [et al.]
• Experiments with intense secondary beams of radioactive ions / H.L. Ravn
• Recent ISOLDE research results / H.L. Ravn
• Physics at the CERN-ISR / G. Giacomelli, M. Jacob
• Physics at the CERN-ISR (1980 up-dating) / G. Giacomelli, M. Jacob
• The CERN muon (g-2) / F. Combley, F.J.M. Farley, E. Picasso
• Neutrino physics with Gargamelle / P. Musset, J.-P. Vialle
• An update of the neutrino physics with Gargamelle article / P. Musset, J.-P. Vialle.