The Special Theory of RelativityRoutledge, 2 sep 2003 - 256 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. |
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II PreEinsteinian Notions of Relativity | 3 |
III The Problem of the Relativity of the Laws of Electrodynamics | 7 |
IV The MichelsonMorley Experiment | 10 |
V Efforts to Save the Ether Hypothesis | 13 |
VI The Lorentz Theory of the Electron | 17 |
VII Further Development of the Lorentz Theory | 19 |
VIII The Problem of Measuring Simultaneity in the Lorentz Theory | 23 |
XVIII Momentum and Mass in Relativity | 60 |
XIX The Equivalence of Mass and Energy | 70 |
XX The Relativistic Transformation Law for Energy and Momentum | 74 |
XXI Charged Particles in an Electromagnetic Field | 78 |
XXII Experimental Evidence for Special Relativity | 83 |
XXIII More About the Equivalence of Mass and Energy | 86 |
XXIV Toward a New Theory of Elementary Particles | 92 |
XXV The Falsification of Theories | 94 |
IX The Lorentz Transformation | 27 |
X The Inherent Ambiguity in the Meanings of SpaceTime Measurements According to the Lorentz Theory | 30 |
XI Analysis of Space and Time Concepts in Terms of Frames of Reference | 31 |
XII CommonSense Notions of Space and Time | 35 |
XIII Introduction to Einsteins Conceptions of Space and Time | 38 |
XIV The Lorentz Transformation in Einsteins Point of view | 44 |
XV Addition of Velocities | 48 |
XVI The Principle of Relativity | 52 |
XVII Some Applications of Relativity | 55 |
XXVI The Minkowski Diagram and the K Calculus | 100 |
XXVII The Geometry of Events and the SpaceTime Continuum | 113 |
XXVIII The Question of Causality and the Maximum Speed of Propagation of Signals in Relativity Theory | 120 |
XXIX Proper Time | 124 |
XXX The Paradox of the Twins | 127 |
XXXI The Significance of the Minkowski Diagram as a Reconstruction of the Past | 134 |
Physics and Perception | 142 |
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