The Special Theory of RelativityPsychology Press, 1996 - 236 pagina's Based 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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PreEinsteinian Notions of Relativity | 4 |
III | 10 |
Efforts to Save the Ether Hypothesis | 17 |
VI | 23 |
VIII | 31 |
The Inherent Ambiguity in the Meanings of Space | 40 |
Introduction to Einsteins Conceptions | 52 |
The Lorentz Transformation in Einsteins | 61 |
Charged Particles in an Electromagnetic Field | 100 |
Experimental Evidence for Special Relativity 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 |
Addition of Velocities | 66 |
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 |
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