Space, time, and mechanics
Subtitle: basic structures of a physical theory
By: edited by D. Mayr and G. Süssmann.
Contributors: Mayr, D. 1944-; Süssmann, George.; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Series: Synthese library ;; v. 163
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston; Springer
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Physics -- Philosophy -- Congresses.; Space and time -- Congresses.; Symmetry (Physics) -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers from a symposium sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Table of contents: title: Is the geometry of physical space a form of pure sensible intuition? A technical reconstruction? Or a structure of reality? / Günther Ludwig; title: Relations between the Galilei-invariant and the Lorentzinvariant theories of collisions / Jürgen Ehlers; title: Geometrie und Physik / C.F. von Weizsäcker; title: Kinematics as a theory or coincidences / Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt; title: A constructive-axiomatic approach to physical space and spacetime geometries of constant curvature by the principle of reproducibility / Dieter Mayr; title: Invariance and covariance / Erhard Scheibe; title: The origion and role of invariance in classical kinematics / W. Balzer; title: The significance of physical invariance principles for the measurement of space-time quantities / Andreas Kamlah; title: Outline of a theory of system-times / Wolfgang Deppert; title: Newton ab omni naevo vindicatus / Peter Janich.