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Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( / mɑːx / MAHKH, German: [ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honour.
May 21, 2008 · Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) made major contributions to physics, philosophy, and physiological psychology. In physics, the speed of sound bears his name, as he was the first to systematically study super-sonic motion. He also made important contributions to understanding the Doppler effect.
Ernst Mach was a physicist and philosopher who was best known for his work in optics, mechanics and wave dynamics. He is credited with deriving the “Mach principle” which explains the phenomenon of inertia by assuming that all of the masses in the universe are somehow connected.
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher who established important principles of optics, mechanics, and wave dynamics and who supported the view that all knowledge is a conceptual organization of the data of sensory experience (or observation).
(1838–1916) Austrian physicist and philosopher. Born in Turas, Mach studied at Vienna, and held chairs in mathematics at Graz, physics at Prague, and then history and theory of inductive science at Vienna. He is widely regarded as the major precursor of logical positivism.
May 17, 2018 · Mach, Ernst, eminent German physicist and philosopher; b. Turas, Moravia, Feb. 18, 1838; d. Vater-stetten, near Munich, Feb. 19, 1916. He was prof. of mathematics at the Univ. of Graz (1864–67), of physics at the Univ. of Prague (1867–95), and of inductive philosophy at the Univ. of Vienna (1895–1901).
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( / mɑːx / MAHKH, German: [ ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Czech physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honour.
Though a working physicist, Ernst Mach confronted questions not only of physics but also of psychology, biology, scientific methodology, the history of ideas and of technology and general culture, and metaphysics.
Sep 14, 2019 · Ernst Mach’s writings remain as thought provoking today as when he first produced them but not so much for his treatment of physics as for the epistemological implications inherent in his vision of how sensations unify the physical with the psychical.
Mach, Ernst, Austrian physicist and philosopher, was born at Turas near Brno, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic ). As with many great figures, a profound psychological experience in youth had lasting effect. Mach describes it in The Analysis of Sensations :
