Relativity
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- The Special & the General Theory A Popular Exposition, 3rd ed
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1. Front matter2. RELATIVITY3. I PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS4. II THE SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES5. III SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS6. IV THE GALILEIAN SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES7. V THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (IN THE RESTRICTED SENSE)8. VI THE THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES EMPLOYED IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS9. VII THE APPARENT INCOMPATIBILITY OF THE LAW OF PROPAGATION OF LIGHT WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY10. VIII ON THE IDEA OF TIME IN PHYSICS11. IX THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY12. X ON THE RELATIVITY OF THE CONCEPTION OF DISTANCE13. XI THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION14. XII THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURING-RODS AND CLOCKS IN MOTION15. XIII THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES. THE EXPERIMENT OF FIZEAU16. XIV THE HEURISTIC VALUE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY17. XV GENERAL RESULTS OF THE THEORY18. XVI EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY19. XVII MINKOWSKI'S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE20. XVIII SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY21. XIX THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD22. XX THE EQUALITY OF INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF RELATIVITY23. XXI IN WHAT RESPECTS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY UNSATISFACTORY?24. XXII A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY25. XXIII BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE26. XXIV EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM27. XXV GAUSSIAN CO-ORDINATES28. XXVI THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONSIDERED AS A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM29. XXVII THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS NOT A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM30. XXVIII EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY31. XXIX THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GRAVITATION ON THE BASIS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY32. XXX COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON'S THEORY33. XXXI THE POSSIBILITY OF A "FINITE" AND YET "UNBOUNDED" UNIVERSE34. XXXII THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY35. APPENDIX I SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION [SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XI]36. APPENDIX II MINKOWSKI'S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE ("WORLD")37. APPENDIX III THE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY38. BIBLIOGRAPHY39. INDEX