Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664129147
Table of Contents
PART I: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
I. PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS
II. THE SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
III. SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
IV. THE GALILEIAN SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (IN THE RESTRICTED SENSE)
VI. THE THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES EMPLOYED IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
VIII. ON THE IDEA OF TIME IN PHYSICS
IX. THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY
X. ON THE RELATIVITY OF THE CONCEPTION OF DISTANCE
XI. THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
XII. THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURING-RODS AND CLOCKS IN MOTION
XIII. THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES. THE EXPERIMENT OF FIZEAU
XIV. THE HEURISTIC VALUE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
XV. GENERAL RESULTS OF THE THEORY
XVI. EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
XVII. MINKOWSKI’S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
PART II: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
XVIII. SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
XXII. A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
XXIII. BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE
XXIV. EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
XXVII. THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS NOT A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
XXVIII. EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
XXIX. THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GRAVITATION ON THE BASIS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
PART III: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE
XXX. COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON’S THEORY
XXXI. THE POSSIBILITY OF A “FINITE” AND YET “UNBOUNDED” UNIVERSE
XXXII. THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
APPENDIX I SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XI)
APPENDIX II MINKOWSKI’S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE (“WORLD”) (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XVII)
APPENDIX III THE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
PREFACE
The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the