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    The New Mechanics
    The New Mechanics
    The New Mechanics
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    The New Mechanics

    By Henri Poincare

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    "The New Mechanics" is a 1908 book on theoretical physics by the renowned physicist and mathematician Henri Poincare. It covers the broad topics of Mechanics and Radium; Mechanics and Optics; and The New Mechanics and Astronomy. His assertion at the time is that some of the well-known physics theories were about to be challenged with more recent discoveries of his time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2021
    ISBN4064066316693
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      The New Mechanics - Henri Poincare

      Henri Poincaré

      The New Mechanics

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066316693

      Table of Contents

      Mechanics and Radium

      Introduction

      Mass Longitudinal and Mass Transversal

      The Canal Rays

      The Theory of Lorentz

      Mechanical Consequences

      Mechanics and Optics

      Aberration

      The Principle of Relativity

      The Principle of Reaction

      Consequences of the Principle of Relativity

      Kaufmann's Experiment

      The Principle of Inertia

      The Wave of Acceleration

      The New Mechanics and Astronomy

      Gravitation

      Comparison with Astronomic Observations

      The Theory of Lesage

      Conclusions

      Mechanics and Radium

      Table of Contents

      I

      Introduction

      Table of Contents

      THE general principles of Dynamics, which have, since Newton, served as foundation for physical science, and which appeared immovable, are they on the point of being abandoned or at least profoundly modified? This is what many people have been asking themselves for some years. According to them, the discovery of radium has overturned the scientific dogmas we believed the most solid: on the one hand, the impossibility of the transmutation of metals; on the other hand, the fundamental postulates of mechanics.

      Perhaps one is too hasty in considering these novelties as finally established, and breaking our idols of yesterday; perhaps it would be proper, before taking sides, to await experiments more numerous and more convincing. None the less is it necessary, from to-day, to know the new doctrines and the arguments, already very weighty, upon which they rest.

      In few words let us first recall in what those principles consist:

      A. The motion of a material point isolated and apart from all exterior force is straight and uniform; this is the principle of inertia: without force no acceleration;

      B. The acceleration of a moving point has the same direction as the resultant of all the forces to which it is subjected; it is equal to the quotient of this resultant by a coefficient called mass of the moving point.

      The mass of a moving point, so defined, is a constant; it does ​not depend upon the velocity acquired by this point; it is the same whether the force, being parallel to this velocity, tends only to accelerate or to retard the motion of the point, or whether, on the contrary, being perpendicular to this velocity, it tends to make this motion deviate toward the right, or the left, that is to say to curve the trajectory;

      C. All the forces affecting a material point come from the action of other material points; they depend only upon the relative positions and velocities of these different material points.

      Combining the two principles B and C, we reach the principle of relative motion, in virtue of which the laws of the motion of a system are the same whether we refer this system to fixed axes, or to moving axes animated by a straight and uniform motion of translation, so that it is impossible to distinguish absolute motion from a relative motion with reference to such moving axes;

      D. If a material point A acts upon another material point B, the body B reacts upon A, and these two actions are two equal and directly opposite forces. This is the principle of the equality of action and reaction, or, more briefly, the principle of reaction.

      Astronomic observations and the most ordinary physical phenomena seem to have given of these principles a confirmation complete, constant and very precise. This is true, it is now said, but it is because we have never operated with any but very small velocities; Mercury, for example, the fastest of the planets, goes scarcely 100 kilometers a second. Would this planet act the same if it went a thousand times faster? We see there is yet no need to worry; whatever may be the progress of automobilism, it will be long before we must give up applying to our machines the classic principles of dynamics.

      How then have

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