Relativity---The-Special-and-General-Theory

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ALBERT EINSTEIN REFERENCE ARCHIVE RELATIVITY: THE SPECIAL AND GENERAL THEORY BY ALBERT EINSTEIN Written: 1916 ...

Apparent Incompatability of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity 08. On the Idea of ...

Relativity and the Problem of Space Note: The fifth Appendix was added by Einstein at the time of the fift ...

THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS In your schooldays most of you who ...

order to give to its structure the largest possible logical unity. The practice, for example, of seeing in ...

On the basis of the physical interpretation of distance which has been indicated, we are also in a posit ...

(c) We speak of the height of the cloud even when the pole which reaches the cloud has not been erected. ...

new method. **A Einstein used "Potsdamer Platz, Berlin" in the original text. In the authorised translation this ...

The positions relative to the body of reference (railway carriage or embankment) have already been defi ...

the bodies, but it also indicates the reference-bodies or systems of coordinates, permissible in mechanics, which ...

exactly as they do with respect to K. We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the t ...

system K[0] then our railway carriage would be a system K, relative to which less simple laws would ...

velocity with which he is walking. Thus in total be covers the distance W=v+w relative to the embank ...

that of the ray of light, but its velocity of course much less. Let us inquire about the velocity of propag ...

At this juncture the theory of relativity entered the arena. As a result of an analysis of the physical c ...

that I am able to attach a meaning to the statement of simultaneity. (I would ask the reader not to proc ...

placed at the points A, B and C of the railway line (co-ordinate system) and that they are set in such a ...

Fig. 01: file fig01.gif reference to the train. Then every event which takes place along the line al ...