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A road map for Feynman’s adventures in the land of gravitation 费曼万有引力探险路线图
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-26 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00028-3
Marco Di Mauro, Salvatore Esposito, Adele Naddeo
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Three Pathbreaking papers of 1966 revisited: their relevance to certain aspects of cosmological creation today 重温 1966 年的三篇开创性论文:它们与当今宇宙学创造的某些方面的相关性
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00025-6
Jayant V. Narlikar
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The thermodynamics of black holes: from Penrose process to Hawking radiation 黑洞热力学:从彭罗斯过程到霍金辐射
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-05 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00022-9
Carla Rodrigues Almeida
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Comment on Clebsch’s 1857 and 1859 papers on using Hamiltonian methods in hydrodynamics 评论克莱布施 1857 年和 1859 年关于在流体力学中使用汉密尔顿方法的论文
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-02 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00014-9
Gérard Grimberg, Emanuele Tassi
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On a general transformation of the hydrodynamical equations 关于流体力学方程的一般变换
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-02 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00015-8
A. Clebsch
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On the integration of the hydrodynamical equations 关于流体力学方程的整合
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-08-02 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00016-7
A. Clebsch
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Guglielmo Marconi, Augusto Righi and the invention of wireless telegraphy 古列尔莫-马可尼、奥古斯托-里吉和无线电报的发明
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00021-w
Matteo Leone, Nadia Robotti
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An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development during World War II 第二次世界大战期间核堆发展的国家间比较
IF 1 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00020-x
B. Cameron Reed
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The ADM version of GR at Sixty: a brief account for historians ADM版的《六十年代》:给历史学家的简短叙述
IF 1 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00019-4
S. Deser
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EPJH Editorial EPJH社论
IF 1 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2021-06-18 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00018-5
James D. Wells, Michael Eckert
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