The Meaning of Relativity
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The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein is four lectures delivered at Princeton University in May, 1921. A note says the translation of these lectures into English was made by Edwin Plimpton Adams, Professor of Physics in Princeton University. The contents list names lectures called Space and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics, The Theory of Special Relativity and The General Theory of Relativity, among others.
The text says it is assumed in pre-relativity physics that the laws of the orientation of ideal rigid bodies are consistent with Euclidean geometry. Lecture III, The General Theory of Relativity, says that all of the previous considerations have been based upon the assumption that all inertial systems are equivalent for the description of physical phenomena. The text says we must now investigate whether such an assumption can satisfy the field equations of gravitation.
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- Albert Einstein
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
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- Physics
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