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almafu_9959237150202883
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1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) :
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1-107-20376-7
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1-139-14035-3
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1-139-14173-2
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1-139-14505-3
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1-139-14085-X
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1-139-13772-7
Content:
Ebenezer Cunningham was a British mathematician and Cambridge graduate with an intense interest in the theory of special relativity, a subject that was just beginning to be recognised as he wrote. This book, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1914, was one of the first treatises in the English language to focus on special relativity. Its publication firmly established Cunningham as one of the greatest minds in the field. Within this volume, Cunningham firstly offers the reader a preface contextualising the progress of the study of relativity thus far. His chapters then process to relate relativity to existing physical theory, expanding on the relativity of Newtonian dynamics, electron theory and theories of Albert Einstein amongst others. This book is thoroughly and engagingly written, and promises to fascinate all those with an interest in the early study of special relativity.
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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1914.
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THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; SUMMARY OF CONTENTS; PART I: THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY IN RELATION TO GENERAL PHYSICAL THEORY; CHAPTER I: THE RELATIVITY OF NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS; CHAPTER II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF THE AETHER; CHAPTER III: THE ELECTRON THEORY; CHAPTER IV: CORRELATION OF STATIONARY AND MOVING SYSTEMS; CHAPTER V: EINSTEIN ON THE RELATIVITY OF SPACE AND TIME; CHAPTER VI: THE KINEMATICS OF EINSTEIN; CHAPTER VII: THE ELECTRON THEORY OF MATTER; PART II: MINKOWSKl'S FOUR-DIMENSION WORLD; CHAPTER VIII: MINKOWSKI'S FOUR-DIMENSION CALCULUS
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CHAPTER IX: THE FIELD EQUATIONS OF THE ELECTRON THEORY IN MINKOWSKI'S FORM CHAPTER X: MINKOWSKI'S ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES; PART III: THE TRANSITION TO MECHANICAL THEORY; CHAPTER XI: THE DYNAMICS OF THE ELECTRON; CHAPTER XII: RELATIVITY AND DYNAMICAL THEORY; CHAPTER XIII: THE DYNAMICS OF A PARTICLE; CHAPTER XIV: THE DYNAMICS OF CONTINUOUS MATERIAL MEDIA; CHAPTER XV: RELATIVITY AND AN OBJECTIVE AETHER; CHAPTER XVI: RELATIVITY AND PROBABILITY; CHAPTER XVII: CONCLUDING REMARKS; PART I: THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY IN RELATION TO GENERAL PHYSICAL THEORY; CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
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1. The Relativity of the Newtonian Dynamics. 2. The Space and Time of dynamics.; 3.; 4.; 5.; 6. Statement of the General Principle of Relativity.; APPENDIX; CHAPTER II: HISTORICAL; 1. The Early Development of the Concept of the Aether*.; 2. Arago's experiment and Fresnel's convection-coeflicient. 1818.; 3. Fizeau's experiment. 1851.; 4. The significance of Fresnel's convection-coeftlcient, and of Fizeau's verification of it.; 5. The Michelson-Morley experiment*.; 6. The FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction.; 7. The null result independent of the material constituting the apparatus.
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10. The significance of these experiments. CHAPTER V: EINSTEIN ON THE RELATIVITY OF SPACE AND TIME; 1.; 2. Coincidence the only exact form of observation.; 3. Discussion of the correlation of systems following Lorentz's equations.; 4. The Relativity of the measures of Space and Time.; 5. The meaning of the term 'simultaneous.'; 6.; 7. On the length of a moving body.; 8. Transformations of space and time variables which leave the velocity of light unaltered.; 9.; CHAPTER VI: THE KINEMATICS OF EINSTEIN; 1.; 2. The transformation is a reciprocal transformation; 3. The FitzGerald contraction; 4. The addition equations for velocities.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-15686-6
Language:
English
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