Purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a “step-motherly”įashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who The reader difficulties which are inherent to the subject. I make no pretence of having withheld from Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought toīe left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant That I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable Has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplestĪnd most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which To that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of theīook, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader.
The work presumes a standard of education corresponding Point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematicalĪpparatus of theoretical physics. Theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity
The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativityĭeflection of Light by a Gravitational Fieldĭisplacement of Spectral Lines Towards the Red Minkowski’s Four-Dimensional Space (“World”) Simple Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation The Possibility of a “Finite” and yet “Unbounded” Universe The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle ofĬonsiderations on the Universe as a WholeĬosmological Difficulties of Newton’s Theory The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity is Not a Euclidean ContinuumĮxact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity The Space-Time Continuum of the Special Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean In What Respects Are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of the Special TheoryĪ Few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativityīehaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference
The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate Special and General Principle of Relativity The Heuristic Value of the Theory of RelativityĮxperience and the Special Theory of Relativity The Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance
The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities Employed in Classical Mechanics The Principle of Relativity in the Restricted Sense Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions
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