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Ernest Mach- Birth
Ernest Mach was born in Chrlice, Moravia. This was part of the Austrian Empire at the time. -
Ernest Mach- Education
Mach began his college studies in 1855 at the University of Vienna. His studies were focused on physics and for one semester medical physiology, but ultimately, in 1860, he received his doctorate in physics . From the beginning,Mach focused on the Doppler effect in optics and acoustics. Ultimately, he would settle in Experimental Physics at the Charles University in Prague for the next 28
years. Cited Work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach (13 June 2018) -
Ernest Mach-Mach's Bands
Most important at this juncture was Mach’s discovery of what later came to be known as Mach’s bands, a phenomenon that relates the physiological effect of spatially distributed light stimuli to visual perception (encyclopedia.com).
Cited:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and technology/physics-biographies/ernst-mach -
Ernest Mach-Notable Publication
Mach's most important publication was “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development” (1893) that details the fundamentals of mechanics and gives an insight into his scientific reasoning process. -
Ernest Mach-Death
Ernest Mach died near Haar, Germany from unknown causes. -
Ernest Mach-Credit After Life
Post-humorously, Einstein introduced the expression “Mach principle” (Machsches Prinzip) to emphasize a generalization of Mach’s claim that the inertia of an isolated body can have no meaning; that inertia must be reduced to the reciprocal action of bodies; that the inertia frame is determined by the mass distribution in the universe; and that the inertial force on a body is the interaction of distant matter on the body.
