Relativity---The-Special-and-General-Theory
PART II THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY The basal principle, which was ...
(a) the embankment as reference-body, (b) the railway carriage as reference- body, then these general laws of nat ...
any rate, there is little hope of success in such an attempt; Let us imagine ourselves transferred to our ...
here the justification for this incidental conception, which is indeed a somewhat arbitrary one. We shall ...
eq. 26: file eq26.gif If now, as we find from experience, the acceleration is to be independent of the nat ...
THE EQUALITY OF INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE GENERAL POSTULE OF RELATIVITY We ima ...
of the same magnitude, whatever kind of body he may happen to use for the experiment. Relying on his knowledg ...
rope is just large enough to effect the acceleration of the body. That which determines the magnitude of ...
OF RELATIVITY UNSATISFACTORY? We have already stated several times that classical mechanics starts out from ...
physics which is conformable to the general principle of relativity, since the equations of such a theory hold ...
reference-body K, such a ray of light is transmitted rectilinearly with the velocity c. It can easily be sho ...
considerations only for the case, which is never strictly realised, in which the electrical masses are quit ...
deflection of light demanded by theory was first confirmed during the solar eclipse of 29th May, 1919. (C ...
a general law of gravitation can be formulated- a law which not only explains the motion of the stars correctl ...
proves that the propositions of Euclidean geometry cannot hold exactly on the rotating disc, nor in gene ...
slab. When I say they are of equal length, I mean that one can be laid on any other without the ends ...
not. With reference to our little rods — defined as unit lengths — the marble slab is no longer a Eucl ...
can treat the geometrical relationships in the surface, and thus pointed out the way to the method of Riemman of ...
where g[11], g[12], g[22], are magnitudes which depend in a perfectly definite way on u and v. The magnitudes ...
However, the Gauss treatment for ds2 which we have given above is not always possible. It is only possi ...
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