Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Author's Preface
• Note to the Fifteenth Edition
• PART I
• The Special Theory of Relativity
• 1 Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions
• 2 The System of Co-ordinates
• 3 Space and Time in Classical Mechanics
• 4 The Galileian System of Co-ordinates
• 5 The Principle of Relativity
• 6 The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities Employed in Classical Mechanics
• 7 The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity
• 8 On the Idea of Time in Physics
• 9 The Relativity of Simultaneity
• 10 On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance
• 11 The Lorentz Transformation
• 12 The Behaviour of Measuring Rods and Clocks in Motion
• 13 Theorem of the Addition of Velocities: the Experiment of Fizeau
• 14 The Heuristic Value of the Theory of Relativity
• 15 General Results of the Theory
• 16 Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity
• 17 Minkowski's Four-Dimensional Space
• PART II
• The General Theory of Relativity
• 18 Special and General Principle of Relativity
• 19 The Gravitational Field
• 20 The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity
• 21 In what Respects are the Foundation of Classical Mechanics and of the Special Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory
• 22 A few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity
• 23 Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference
• 24 Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Continuum
• 25 Gaussian Co-ordinates
• 26 The Space-Time Continuum of the Special Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum
• 27 The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity is not a Euclidean Continuum
• 28 Exact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity
• 29 The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle of Relativity