The Special Theory of RelativityBased on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its basic meaning. With clarity and grace, he also reveals the limited truth of some of the "common sense" assumptions which make it difficult for us to appreciate its full implications. With a new foreword by Basil Hiley, a close colleague of David Bohm's, The Special Theory of Relativity is an indispensable addition to the work of one of greatest physicists and thinkers of the twentieth century. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
The Problem of the Relativity of the Laws | 10 |
Efforts to Save the Ether Hypothesis | 17 |
The Lorentz Theory of the Electron | 23 |
The Problem of Measuring Simultaneity in | 31 |
Time Measurements According to | 40 |
CommonSense Concepts of Space | 48 |
The Lorentz Transformation in Einsteins | 61 |
Experimental Evidence for Special Relativity | 106 |
More About the Equivalence of Mass and Energy | 110 |
Toward a New Theory of Elementary Particles | 119 |
The Falsification of Theories | 123 |
The Minkowski Diagram and the K Calculus | 131 |
The Geometry of Events and the SpaceTime Continuum | 146 |
The Question of Causality and the Maximum Speed of Propagation of Signals in Relativity Theory | 155 |
Proper Time | 161 |
The Principle of Relativity | 70 |
Some Applications of Relativity | 75 |
Momentum and Mass in Relativity | 81 |
The Equivalence of Mass and Energy | 91 |
The Relativistic Transformation Law for Energy and Momentum | 96 |
Charged Particles in an Electromagnetic Field | 100 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Special Theory of Relativity Lecture notes and supplements in physics |
| Auteur | David Bohm |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Psychology Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 041514809X, 9780415148092 |
| Lengte | 236 pagina's |
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