Relativity
Subtitle: the special and general theory
By: by Albert Einstein ; authorised translation: Robert W. Lawson
Contributors: Lawson, Robert W.
Publisher: Really Simple Media
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781456548520
Subjects: Relativity (Physics)
Work titles: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Notes: First published in 1916.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions; title: The System of Co-ordinates; title: Space and Time in Classical Mechanics; title: The Galileian System of Co-ordinates; title: The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense); title: The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities employed in Classical Mechanics; title: The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity; title: On the Idea of Time in Physics; title: The Relativity of Simultaneity; title: On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance; title: The Lorentz Transformation; title: The Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion; title: Theorem of the Addition of Velocities. The Experiment of Fizeau; title: The Hueristic Value of the Theory of Relativity; title: General Results of the Theory; title: Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity; title: Minkowski's Four-dimensional Space; title: Part II: The General Theory of Relativity. Special and General Principle of Relativity; title: The Gravitational Field; title: The equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity; title: In What Respects are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of the Special Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory?; title: A Few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity; title: Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference; title: Euclidean and non-Euclidean Continuum; title: Gaussian Co-ordinates; title: The Space-Time Continuum of the Special Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum; title: The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity is Not a Euclidean Continuum; title: Exact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity; title: The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle of Relativity; title: Part III: Considerations on the Universe as a Whole. Cosmological Difficulties of Newton's Theory; title: The Possibility of a "Finite" and yet "Unbounded" Universe; title: The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity.