28th Lanchester Memorial Lecture — Experimental real-gas hypersonics
28th Lanchester Memorial Lecture — Experimental real-gas hypersonics
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第28届兰彻斯特纪念讲座——实验真实气体高超音速
DOI：
10.1017/s0001924000016511
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1988
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H. Hornung
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作者：
H. Hornung
对于所有这样或那样的专家来说，阅读由具有F的水平和广度的科学家或工程师所写的书籍是一种非常有益的锻炼。W.兰彻斯特他同时也是飞行的真正先驱者，是流体力学、飞行力学、实际应用和（远远领先于他的时代）飞行的军事应用、材料的新用途以及装置和机制的发明者。然而，特别令人惊讶的是，在研究F。W.兰彻斯特，一本书出版于1935年题为相对论和两个较早的文件就这个问题发表于1921年。兰切斯特会见了闵可夫斯基于1908年在家里他的朋友卡尔龙格，应用数学家，在哥廷根，并在讨论与闵可夫斯基了这样一个兴趣领域，他能够使这些早期的英语贡献。也许，造就这些先驱者的最重要的特质是敢于思考真正的新思想。他对物理学中新哲学的迷恋，可以从这种大胆的思想风格中很容易地理解。
For all who are specialists of one kind or another, it is a very healthy exercise to read books written by scientists or engineers of the calibre and breadth of F. W. Lanchester. He was at the same time truly a pioneer of flight, an expert in fluid mechanics, in flight mechanics, in the practical, and (well ahead of his time) in the military applications of flight, in the novel use of materials, and an inventor of devices and mechanisms. However, it was with particular surprise that I found, on studying the literature under the name F. W. Lanchester, a book published in 1935 entitled Relativity and two earlier papers on the subject published in 1921. Lanchester had met Minkowski in 1908 at the house of his friend Carl Runge, the applied mathematician, at Göttingen, and following a discussion with Minkowski had taken such an interest in the field that he was able to make these early English contributions. Perhaps the most important property that makes such pioneers is the courage to think truly new thoughts. His fascination with the new philosophy in physics may be easily understood in terms of this bold style of thought.