Relativity: The Special and General Theory

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Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2004 - 201 Seiten
Albert EinsteinsRelativity: The Special and the General Theory (1920) is a cornerstone of modern physics. Einstein intended this book for "those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus." Indeed, within the vast literature on the philosophy of space and time, Einsteins Relativity shall remain an illuminable and intelligible exposition, highly quotable as one of the most lucid presentations of the subject matter, and a launching pad for any further inquiry on the fascinating features of our universe.
 

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THE SYSTEM OF COORDINATES
6
IN THE RESTRICTED SENSE
12
THE LAW OF PROPAGATION OF LIGHT
16
THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY
22
THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURINGRODS
31
THE HEURISTIC VALUE
37
EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL
43
SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
53
BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURINGRODS
69
THE SPACETIME CONTINUUM
79
THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM
87
COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTONS THEORY
93
THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING
99
MINKOWSKIS FOURDIMENSIONAL
106
ENDNOTES
117
SUGGESTED READING
125

IN WHAT RESPECTS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS
63

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the modern worlds greatest scientific superstar. A Nobel laureate, the author of the special and the general theories of relativity, and a key figure in the birth of quantum mechanics, Einstein was also a humanist fighter for peace and freedom. Robert Lawson was born in 1892 in New York City. He studied art for three years under illustrator Howard Giles. His career as an illustrator began in 1914, when his illustration for a poem about the invasion of Belgium was published in Harper's Weekly. In 1922, he illustrated his first children's book, The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat. Subsequently he illustrated dozens of children's books by other authors, including such well-known titles as The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. He has illustrated as many as forty books by other authors, and another seventeen books that he himself was author of, including Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos and Rabbit Hill. His work was widely admired, and he became the first, and so far only, person to be given both the Caldecott Medal (They Were Strong and Good, 1941) and the Newbery Medal (Rabbit Hill, 1945). Ben and Me earned a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. Lawson died in 1957 at his home in Westport, Connecticut, in a house that he referred to as Rabbit Hill, since it had been the setting for his book of the same name. He was 64.

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