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American Physical Society, 1912
In Feb. 1903, the separate publication of the Bulletin of the American Physical Society was discontinued and Its Proceedings published in the Physical review.
 

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Página 311 - Abstraet of a paper presented at the New York meeting of the Physical Society, December 27—29, 1906.
Página 228 - Duddell singing arc ; abstract of a paper presented at the Washington meeting of the Physical Society, April 26-27, 1901; (5am*.
Página 135 - The principle of relativity accounts for the negative result of the experiment of Michelson and Morley, but without an ether how do we account for the interference phenomena which made that experiment possible? There are only two ways yet thought of to account for the passage of light through space. Are the supporters of the theory of relativity going to return to the corpuscles of Newton?
Página 471 - F and E are the complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind, respectively, to modulus k.
Página 74 - Abstract of a paper presented at the Chicago meeting of the Physical Society, November 28, 1914.
Página 137 - I do not believe that there is any man now living who can assert with truth that he can conceive a time which is a function of velocity or is willing to go to the stake for the conviction that his 'now...
Página 304 - A comparison of the results in Table II. with those in Table I...
Página 138 - A theory becomes intelligible when it is expressed in terms of the primary concepts of force, space and time, as they are understood by the whole race of man. When a physical law is expressed in terms of those concepts we feel that we have a reason for it, we rest intellectually satisfied on the ultimate basis of immediate knowledge. Have we not a right to ask of those leaders of thought to whom we owe the development of the theory of relativity...
Página 64 - An official ballot shall be sent to each member at least one mouth prior to the Annual Meeting, and such ballots, if returned to the Secretary in envelopes bearing the names of the voters, shall be counted at the Annual Meeting. Each such ballot shall contain a name...
Página 137 - A description of phenomena in terms of four dimensions in space would be unsatisfactory to me as an explanation, because by no stretch of my imagination can I make myself believe in the reality of a fourth dimension. The description of phenomena in terms of a time which is a function of the velocity of the body on which I reside will be, I fear, equally unsatisfactory to me, because, try I ever so hard, I can not make myself realize that such a time is conceivable.

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