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Meaning of relativity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Elecbook,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Albert Einstein
- CONTENTS
- SPACE AND TIME IN PRE-RELATIVITY PHYSICS
- Space, concept of 6
- Co-ordinates, Cartesian 7
- Euclidean geometry 7
- Linear orthogonal transformation 10
- Orthogonal transformations 10
- Orthogonality, conditions of 10
- Preferred systems of co-ordinates 10
- Transformation, linear orthogonal 10
- Invariants 12
- Rank of tensor 15
- Tensors 15
- Tensors, operations 15
- Tensors, rank of 15
- Addition and subtraction of tensors, 16
- Multiplication of tensors 16
- Tensors, addition and subtraction of 16.
- Tensors, contraction of 16
- Tensors, multiplication of 16
- Tensors, symmetrical and skew-symmetrical 17
- Homogeneity of space 18
- Isotropy of space 18
- Simultaneity 18
- Co-variance of equation of continuity 22
- Stress tensor 23
- Viscous compressible fluid 23
- Maxwell's equations 24
- THE THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Galilean transformation 27
- Pre-relativity physics, hypotheses of 27
- Fizeau 28
- Michelson and Morley 28
- Sitter 28
- Transformation, Galilean 28
- Criticisms of theory of relativity 29
- Simultaneity 29
- Time, concept 29.
- Lorentz transformation 31
- Four-dimensional continuum 32
- Light time 32
- Minkowski 32
- Time-space concept 32
- Transformation, Lorentz 32
- Addition theorem of velocities 37
- Clocks, moving 37
- Moving measuring-rods and clocks 37
- Velocities, addition theorem of 37
- Transformation, Lorentz 38
- Light-cone 39
- Four-vector 40
- Biot-Savart force 44
- Lorentz electromotive force 44
- Energy and mass 45
- Equations of motion of material particle 48
- Equivalence of mass and energy 48
- Motion of particle, equations of 48.
- Energy tensor of electromagnetic field 49
- Conservation principles 52
- Principles of conservation 52
- Energy tensor of matter 53
- THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- Mach 58
- Gravitational mass 59
- Inertia and gravitational mass, equality of 59
- Principle of equivalence 59
- Equation of continuity, covariance of 60
- Galilean regions 60
- Inertia, criticisms of principle 60
- Rotation 61
- Centrifugal force 62
- Compressible viscous fluid 62
- Gauss, theory of surfaces 62
- Curvilinear co-ordinates 63
- Contravariant vectors 65
- Co-variant vector 65.
- Riemann 65
- Vectors, co-variant 66
- Vectors, contra-variant 66
- Fundamental tensor 67
- Tensors 67
- Contravariant tensors 68
- Co-variant tensors 68
- Differentiation of tensors 69
- Tensors, formation by differentiation 69
- Levi-Civita 70
- Weyl 70
- Riemann tensor 75
- Geodesic lines 78
- Straightest lines 78
- GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY (continued)
- Poisson's equation 82
- Equations of gravitational field 88
- Gravitation constant 89
- Displacement of spectral lines 92
- Light ray, path of 92
- Spectral lines, displacement of 92.