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ABC of relativity /
First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell's ABC of Relativity was considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to Einstein's theory of Relativity for a genera...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Series: | Routledge classics
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Table of Contents:
- Touch and sight : the earth and the heavens
- What happens and what is observed
- The velocity of light
- Clocks and foot-rules
- Space-time
- The special theory of relativity
- Intervals in space-time
- Einstein's law of gravitation
- Proofs of Einstein's law of gravitation
- Mass, momentum, energy, and action
- The expanding universe
- Conventions and natural laws
- The abolition of "force"
- What is matter?
- Philosophical consequences.