This physicist sometimes names the shock diamonds formed when the pressure of the exhaust from a propeller nozzle is less than the ambient air pressure. An interferometer used to measure the phase shift between two light beams split from one source is co-named for Ludwig Zehnder and this man’s son. This physicist argued that the large scale structure of the universe fully determines the (*) local inertia of a body, which Einstein called this physicist’s namesake principle. When a quantity named for this physicist is less than around 0.3, fluid flow is approximately incompressible. A quantity named for this physicist differentiates the subsonic, transsonic, and supersonic regimes. For 10 points, name this Austrian physicist who names a number equal to a material’s velocity divided by its speed of sound. ■END■
ANSWER: Ernst Mach [or Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach]
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