Relativity: The Special and General Theory

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Author

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Original Publication

Methuen & Co Ltd, 1924

Credits

Robert Hux

Language

English

LoC Class

QC: Science: Physics

Subject

Relativity (Physics)

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Text

eBook-No.

30155

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30155

Release Date

October 1, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Relativity: The Special and General Theory — by Albert Einstein — Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson — Contents
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.PART I: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
4. 4.I. PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS
5. 5.II. THE SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
6. 6.III. SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
7. 7.IV. THE GALILEIAN SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
8. 8.V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (IN THE RESTRICTED SENSE)
9. 9.VI. THE THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES EMPLOYED IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
10. 10.VII. THE APPARENT INCOMPATIBILITY OF THE LAW OF PROPAGATION OF LIGHT WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
11. 11.VIII. ON THE IDEA OF TIME IN PHYSICS
12. 12.IX. THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY
13. 13.X. ON THE RELATIVITY OF THE CONCEPTION OF DISTANCE
14. 14.XI. THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
15. 15.XII. THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURING-RODS AND CLOCKS IN MOTION
16. 16.XIII. THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES. THE EXPERIMENT OF FIZEAU
17. 17.XIV. THE HEURISTIC VALUE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
18. 18.XV. GENERAL RESULTS OF THE THEORY
19. 19.XVI. EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
20. 20.XVII. MINKOWSKI’S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
21. 21.PART II: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
22. 22.XVIII. SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
23. 23.XIX. THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
24. 24.XX. THE EQUALITY OF INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF RELATIVITY
25. 25.XXI. IN WHAT RESPECTS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY UNSATISFACTORY?
26. 26.XXII. A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
27. 27.XXIII. BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE
28. 28.XXIV. EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
29. 29.XXV. GAUSSIAN CO-ORDINATES
30. 30.XXVI. THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONSIDERED AS A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
31. 31.XXVII. THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS NOT A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
32. 32.XXVIII. EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
33. 33.XXIX. THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GRAVITATION ON THE BASIS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
34. 34.PART III: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE
35. 35.XXX. COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON’S THEORY
36. 36.XXXI. THE POSSIBILITY OF A “FINITE” AND YET “UNBOUNDED” UNIVERSE
37. 37.XXXII. THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
38. 38.APPENDICES
39. 39.APPENDIX I SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XI)
40. 40.APPENDIX II MINKOWSKI’S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE (“WORLD”) (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XVII)
41. 41.APPENDIX III THE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY — ( a ) Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury — ( b ) Deflection of Light by a Gravitational Field — ( c ) Displacement of Spectral Lines Towards the Red
42. 42.APPENDIX IV THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XXXII)

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