The special theory of relativity
By: David Bohm ; with a foreword by Basil Hiley and a new preface by John Barrow
Series: Routledge classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Special relativity (Physics)
Notes: Originally published: New York : W.A. Benjamin, 1965.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pre-Einsteinian notions of relativity; title: The problem of the relativity of the laws of electrodynamics; title: The Michelson-Morley experiment; title: Efforts to save the ether hypothesis; title: The Lorentz theory of the electron; title: Further development of the Lorentz theory; title: The problem of measuring simultaneity in the Lorentz theory; title: The Lorentz transformation; title: The inherent ambiguity in the meanings of space-time measurements, according to the Lorentz theory; title: Analysis of space and time concepts in terms of frames of reference; title: Contents; title: Common-sense concepts of space and time; title: Introduction to Einstein's conceptions of space and time; title: The Lorentz transformation in Einstein's point of view; title: Addition of velocities; title: The principle of relativity; title: Some applications of relativity; title: Momentum and mass in relativity; title: The equivalence of mass and energy; title: The relativistic transformation law for energy and momentum; title: Charged particles in an electromagnetic field; title: Experimental evidence for special relativity; title: More about the equivalence of mass and energy; title: Toward a new theory of elementary particles; title: The falsification of theories; title: The Minkowski diagram and the k calculus; title: The geometry of events and the space-time continuum; title: The question of causality and the maximum speed of propagation of  signals in relativity theory; title: Proper time; title: The "paradox" of the twins; title: The significance of the Minkowski diagram as a reconstruction of the past; title: Appendix : Physics and perception.