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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Austrian ancestry, being descended from the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. She went to Meramec Community College and studied philosophy at Washington...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Crown, Austrian Empire. Ernst had a child out of wedlock with Kunigunde Schwarzenegger, and the child was originally named Carl Mach, but later adopted his...

questions. The German term Gedankenexperiment was utilized by physicist Ernst Mach The ancient Greek δείκνυμι, deiknymi, 'thought experiment', "was the most...

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

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...

the empiricism of David Hume, Auguste Comte and Ernst Mach, along with the positivism of Comte and Mach, defining its exemplar of science in Einstein's...

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

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

of it, and will be grateful to me for having thus extended its domain. Ernst Mach describes the work as follows: Analytic mechanics... was brought to the...

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...

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...

published in 1721. His arguments were a notable precursor to those of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein. In 1732, he published Alciphron, a Christian apologetic...

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...

Materialism Lenin discusses authors such as Bogdanov, Suvorov, Ernst Haeckel and Ernst Mach. In an addition to Chapter IV, Lenin addresses the question:...

mental itself, or an illusion created by the mind. Neutral monists such as Ernst Mach and William James argue that events in the world can be thought of as...

CMB a modern analogue of an absolute reference frame. Mach's principle and distant masses Ernst Mach proposed that inertia arises from the interaction of...