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Gustav Jaumann

Gustav Jaumann is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gustav Jaumann rather than just read about it. In short: Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an Austrian physicist. An assistant to the physicist Ernst Mach, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like electrons and atoms.

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Reference excerpt

Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an Austrian physicist. An assistant to the physicist Ernst Mach, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like electrons and atoms. Between 1901 and 1924 he taught physics at the German Technical University in Brno. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1911.

Remembered for "Corotational derivative" expresses the stress tensor in a rotating body. Jaumann was offered a professorship at Prague University in 1911, but refused the position. The candidate who was the faculty's first choice, Albert Einstein, would accept the offer after it was turned down by Jaumann, who is alleged to have said in an unsubstantiated quotation from Philipp Frank, "If Einstein has been proposed as the first choice because of the belief that he has greater achievements to his credit, then I will have nothing to do with a university that chases after modernity and does not appreciate merit." The actual reason as alleged by the Austrian Minister of Education, in his official report to Emperor Franz Josef, seems to have been about money. The beleaguered situation of Germans in Prague at the time, with which Jaumann was familiar, may also have been a factor in his declining the post. Jaumann was apparently the candidate preferred by the Austro-Hungarian ministry, presumably because he was Austrian and not a foreigner. Einstein, under the impression he would not receive the job, however, blamed his "Semitic origin [that] the ministry did not approve [of]".

See also Zaremba-Jaumann stress rate

Notes

References Blackmore J. T., Itagaki R., Tanaka S. (2001), Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-0-7923-7122-9. Available in Google Books. Isaacson W. (2007) Einstein, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-6473-0. Müller, I., (2007) A History of Thermodynamics: The Doctrine of Energy and Entropy, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-46226-2. footnote on page 75. Available in Google Books. Teachers of physics and chemistry at the German Technical University in Brno. Tanner, R.I.; Walters, K. (1998). Rheology: An Historical Perspective: An Historical Perspective. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-054057-3. Wu, Han-Chin (2004). Continuum Mechanics and Plasticity. CRC Series--Modern Mechanics and Mathematics. Chapman & Hall. ISBN 978-1-58488-363-0., available on Google Books.

External links Gustav Jaumann in German Wikipedia Einstein's Job Search

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Gustav Jaumann

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gustav Jaumann ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gustav Jaumann

In research
Gustav Jaumann appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Gustav Jaumann in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Gustav Jaumann is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1863 births, 1924 deaths, 19th-century Austrian physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
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Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an Austrian physicist. An assistant to the physicist Ernst Mach, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like electrons and atoms.

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