Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (/mɑːx/ MAHKH; German: [ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher...
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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...
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Vienna Circle (redirect from Verein Ernst Mach)
Empirismus), logical positivism or neopositivism. It was influenced by Ernst Mach, David Hilbert, French conventionalism (Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem)...
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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...
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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...
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imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. The hypothesis attempted to explain how rotating objects, such as gyroscopes...
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Shock diamond (redirect from Mach diamond)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (redirect from Ernst Mach Institute)
(German: Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik), commonly known as the Ernst Mach Institute and also by the abbreviation Fraunhofer EMI, is a facility of...
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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...
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Wolfgang Pauli (redirect from Wolfgang Ernst Pauli)
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...
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Ludwig is the son of the physicist Ernst Mach. Velocimetry Hoffmann, Christoph (1 March 2013). "Superpositions: Ludwig Mach and Étienne-Jules Marey's studies...
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Marilyn vos Savant (redirect from Marilyn Mach)
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...
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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...
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German-language term Gedankenexperiment within the work of the physicist Ernst Mach and includes thoughts about what may have occurred if a different course...
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on the positivistic-phenomenalistic philosophy of Empirio-criticism by Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius. He emphasized the relative nature of all phenomena...
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phenomenalism was formulated by Ernst Mach, later developed and refined by Russell, Ayer and the logical positivists. Mach rejected the existence of God...
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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...
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Paul Pojman (section Ernst Mach)
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...
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lecturer on art. Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Czech-Austrian physicist and philosopher. Gerard Mach (1926–2015), Polish sprinter. Jaroslav Mach (1887–unknown)...
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Mach reflection is a supersonic fluid dynamics effect, named for Ernst Mach, and is a shock wave reflection pattern involving three shocks. Mach reflection...
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theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and Ernst Mach (1838–1916) influenced early Modernist literature. Ernst Mach argued that the mind had a fundamental...
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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...
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Mach number can all be calculated knowing the upstream Mach number and the shock angle. Smaller shock angles are associated with higher upstream Mach...
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such as Gustaf de Laval advanced the field, while researchers such as Ernst Mach sought to understand the physical phenomena involved through experimentation...
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Blackmore et al, eds, Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930 (Kluwer, 2001), p. 63, as Frank was a student of Boltzmann soon after Mach's retirement. See "Notes"...
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correspondence with the Austrian physicist and philosopher of science Ernst Mach. He informed Mach of his growing influence in Russia, affecting such scientists...
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its resistance to acceleration. This definition has been championed by Ernst Mach and has since been developed into the notion of operationalism by Percy...
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