biography
pronunciation:
[mahk]
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| lived:
| (1838–1916)
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| biography:
| Physicist and philosopher, born in Turas, Austria. He studied at Vienna University, and became professor of mathematics at Graz in 1864, and of physics at Prague (1867) and Vienna (1895). His experimental work has proved of great importance in aeronautical design and the science of projectiles, and his name has been given to a unit of velocity (the Mach number - the ratio of speed of object to the speed of sound in the medium in which the object is moving), and to the angle of a shock wave to the direction of motion (the Mach angle). His writings greatly influenced Einstein, and laid the foundations of logical positivism. |
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