Bøger af William Thomson

The two volumes reissued here are the only completed part of a survey of the entirety of the physical sciences by Lord Kelvin and his fellow Scot, Peter Guthrie Tait, first published in 1867. This edition is the second, published in 1879.

This volume of lectures by the renowned physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, published in 1904, describes the problems inherent in the nineteenth-century concept of ether as a medium for light propagation. These problems led Einstein to formulate the theories of special relativity and the photoelectric effect.

This book extrapolates on the Nash (1950) treatment of the bargaining problem to consider the situation where the number of bargainers may vary. The authors formulate axioms to specify how solutions should respond to such changes and provide new characterizations of all the major solutions as well as the generalizations of these solutions.

This fourth edition of this volume features a new chapter on computational methods that presents the basic principles on which most modern computer programs are developed. It introduces an example on rotor balancing and expands on the section on shock spectrum and isolation.