Relativity : the Special and General Theory
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ALBERT EINSTEIN REFERENCE ARCHIVE
CONTENTS
Part II: The General Theory of Relativity
Part III: Considerations on the Universe as a Whole
PREFACE
PART I
THE SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
THE GALILEIAN SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES
THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (IN THE RESTRICTED SENSE)
THE THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES EMPLOYED IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
THE APPARENT INCOMPATIBILITY OF THE LAW OF PROPAGATION OF LIGHT WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
ON THE IDEA OF TIME IN PHYSICS
THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULATNEITY
ON THE RELATIVITY OF THE CONCEPTION OF DISTANCE
THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURING-RODS AND CLOCKS IN MOTION
THEOREM OF THE ADDITION OF VELOCITIES. THE EXPERIMENT OF FIZEAU
THE HEURISTIC VALUE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
GENERAL RESULTS OF THE THEORY
EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
MINKOWSKI'S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
PART II
SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
THE EQUALITY OF INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE GENERAL POSTULE OF RELATIVITY
IN WHAT RESPECTS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY UNSATISFACTORY?
A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE
EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
GAUSSIAN CO-ORDINATES
THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE SPEICAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONSIDERED AS A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM
THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF REALTIIVTY IS NOT A ECULIDEAN CONTINUUM
EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GRAVITATION ON THE BASIS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
PART III
COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON'S THEORY
Part from the difficulty discussed in Section 21, there is a second fundamental difficulty attending classical celestial mechanics, which, to the best of my knowledge, was first discussed in detail by the astronomer Seeliger. If we ponder over the question as to how the universe, considered as a whole, is to be regarded, the first answer that suggests itself to us is surely this: As regards space (and time) the universe is infinite. There are stars everywhere, so that the density of matter, although very variable in detail, is nevertheless on the average everywhere the same. In other words: However far we might travel through space, we should find everywhere an attenuated swarm of fixed stars of approrimately the same kind and density.
THE POSSIBILITY OF A "FINITE" AND YET "UNBOUNDED" UNIVERSE
THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
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