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Title Page Contents Editor's Foreword Preface Introduction I. Elementary Principles 1. Indeterminateness of the space-time frame 2. The fundamental quadratic form 3. Measurement of intervals 4. Rectangular coordinates and time 5. The Lorentz transformation 6. The velocity of light 7. Timelike and spacelike intervals 8. Immediate consciousness of time 9. The ``3 + 1 dimensional'' world 10. The FitzGerald contraction 11. Simultaneity at different places 12. Momentum and mass 13. Energy 14. Density and temperature 15. General transformations of coordinates 16. Fields of force 17. The Principle of Equivalence 18. Retrospect II. The Tensor Calculus 19. Contravariant and covariant vectors 20. The mathematical notion of a vector 21. The physical notion of a vector 22. The summation convention 23. Tensors 24. Inner multiplication and contraction. The quotient law 25. The fundamental tensors 26. Associated tensors 27. Christoffel's 3-index symbols 28. Equations of a geodesic 29. Covariant derivative of a vector 30. Covariant derivative of a tensor 31. Alternative discussion of the covariant derivative 32. Surface-elements and Stokes's theorem 33. Significance of covariant differentiation 34
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- Author
- A.S. Eddington
- Publisher
- Bibles.org.uk
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction