Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (/mɑːx/ MAHKH; German: [ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a physicist and philosopher from the Austrian...

Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. M = u c , {\displaystyle \mathrm {M} ={\frac {u}{c}},} where: M is the local Mach number, u is the local flow...

Mach number of the flow. Early observations by Ernst Mach used grooves in the wall of a duct to produce Mach waves in a duct, which were then photographed...

Empirismus), logical positivism or neopositivism. It was influenced by Ernst Mach, David Hilbert, French conventionalism (Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem)...

physicists Ludwig Mach (the son of Ernst Mach) and Ludwig Zehnder; Zehnder's proposal in an 1891 article was refined by Mach in an 1892 article. Mach–Zehnder interferometry...

be correlation measurements between movements, as stated by physicist Ernst Mach in 1883: It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things...

imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. The hypothesis attempted to explain how rotating objects, such as gyroscopes...

Mach bands is an optical illusion named after the physicist Ernst Mach. It exaggerates the contrast between edges of the slightly differing shades of gray...

and cheerful work." Einstein liked Ernst Mach's scientific work, though not his philosophical work. He said "Mach was as good a scholar of mechanics as...

through a series of standing shock waves and expansion fans. The physicist Ernst Mach was the first to describe a strong shock normal to the direction of fluid...

actress. Pauli's middle name was given in honor of his godfather, physicist Ernst Mach. Pauli's paternal grandparents were from prominent Jewish families of...

(German: Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik), commonly known as the Ernst Mach Institute and also by the abbreviation Fraunhofer EMI, is a facility of...

Woodward's dictum "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras". Ernst Mach formulated the stronger version of Occam's razor into physics, which he...

thinker Ernst Mach and wrote the entry on Mach for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In a 2011 article Pojman details the influence that Mach's studies...

general relativity. A more recent form of these objections was made by Ernst Mach. Mach's principle proposes that mechanics is entirely about relative motion...

Austrian ancestry, being descended from the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. As a teenager Savant worked in her father's general store and wrote for...

German-language term Gedankenexperiment within the work of the physicist Ernst Mach and includes thoughts about what may have occurred if a different course...

streamlines in the field of Aerodynamics. Ludwig is the son of the physicist Ernst Mach. In 1894 he registered the patent for Magnalium, an aluminum alloy with...

Institute in Kachino near Moscow. He was influenced by both Ernst Mach and his son Ludwig Mach. From 1918 he was the head of TsAGI (Central AeroHydroDynamics...

Mach reflection is a supersonic fluid dynamics effect, named for Ernst Mach, and is a shock wave reflection pattern involving three shocks. Mach reflection...

theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and Ernst Mach (1838–1916) influenced early Modernist literature. Ernst Mach argued that the mind had a fundamental...

phenomenalism was formulated by Ernst Mach, later developed and refined by Russell, Ayer and the logical positivists. Mach rejected the existence of God...

and philosophical insights of Ernst Mach. Many, but not all, of the Russian Machists were Marxists, and some viewed Machism as an essential ingredient of...

judoka Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete Ernst Lauda (1859–1932), Austrian engineer Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director Ernst Mach, physicist...

on the positivistic-phenomenalistic philosophy of Empirio-criticism by Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius. He emphasized the relative nature of all phenomena...

lecturer on art. Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Czech-Austrian physicist and philosopher. Gerard Mach (1926–2015), Polish sprinter. Jaroslav Mach (1887–unknown)...

to produce travelling and standing waves, beating, and random motion. Ernst Mach designed and constructed the first pendulum wave demonstration around...

Mach is a large lunar impact crater of the class known as a walled plain. It is located on the far side of the Moon and cannot be viewed directly from...

Ostwald, Georg Helm and Pierre Duhem. It was also promoted by physicist Ernst Mach who opposed atomic theory, though his full commitment to it was sometimes...

Motion), published 1721. His arguments were a precursor to the views of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein. In 1732, he published Alciphron, a Christian apologetic...