Relativity in our time : from physics to human relations /: from physics to human relations. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mendel Sachs.
• Other Names: Sachs, Mendel
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. A seminal idea -- the principle of relativity -- 3. Early observations of things -- 4. Toward an abstract view of nature -- 5. Einstein's ideas of special relativity -- 6. Space -- 7. Time -- 8. Space-time -- 9. The principle of relativity -- from Galileo to Einstein -- 10. Violation of 'common sense' notions of distance and simultaneity -- 11. On the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction -- 12. Relative time and the twin paradox -- 13. Geometry, causality and the light cone in special relativity -- 14. Particles of matter in special relativity and E = Mc[superscript 2] -- 15. The continuous field concept in relativity -- 16. The Mach principle -- 17. Experimental confirmations of special relativity and transition to general relativity -- 18. The curvature of space-time -- 19. Gravitation and crucial tests of general relativity -- 20. Faraday's unified field concept -- 21. Einstein's unified field concept -- 22. The night sky -- 23. Cosmology.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (174 pages)
• Subjects: 530.1/1; General relativity (Physics); General relativity (Physics); Relativitätstheorie; Relativité (physique); Relativitätstheorie
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482272499; 1482272490
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