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... Classical " physics , which depends on this development , thus appears as a systematic mathematization of all mechanics of material bodies . Then , in the very middle of the 19th century , the synthesis achieved by James Clerk Maxwell ...
... Classical " physics , which depends on this development , thus appears as a systematic mathematization of all mechanics of material bodies . Then , in the very middle of the 19th century , the synthesis achieved by James Clerk Maxwell ...
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... classical physics by his conclusions . It was thus that he retained certain principles and reformulated others . The special theory of relativity can be defined as the field of the redefinition of classical physics caused by the ...
... classical physics by his conclusions . It was thus that he retained certain principles and reformulated others . The special theory of relativity can be defined as the field of the redefinition of classical physics caused by the ...
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... classical physics , space and time are inde- pendent . Space has three dimensions , and time does not depend on the space reference frame : " now " can be defined everywhere the same way . It has been said that time is a " spatial ...
... classical physics , space and time are inde- pendent . Space has three dimensions , and time does not depend on the space reference frame : " now " can be defined everywhere the same way . It has been said that time is a " spatial ...
Contents
Introduction by Dominique Lecourt | 25 |
The general relativity constants G and c | 36 |
The quantum constants h and | 47 |
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