David Bohm

The Special Theory of Relativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption, and explaining its basic meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415148085
• ISBN-10: 0415148081
• Artikelnr.: 26676674

Autorenporträt

David Bohm (1917-1992). A close colleague of Einstein's at Princeton University after World War II, Bohm would himself go on to become one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. Persecuted for his radical politics during the era of the McCarthy hearings, he left the US in 1952 to teach first in Brazil and then in the UK. Popular Science/Physics/Philosophy

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Pre-Einsteinian Notions of Relativity 3. The Problem of
the Relativity of the Laws of Electrodynamics 4. The Michelson-Morley
Experiment 5. Efforts to Save the Ether Hypothesis 6. The Lorentz Theory of
the Electron 7. Further Development of the Lorentz Theory 8. The Problem of
Measuring Simultaneity in the Lorentz Theory 9. The Lorentz Transformation
10. The Inherent Ambiguity in the Meanings of Space-Time Measurements,
According to the Lorentz Theory 11. Analysis of Space and Time Concepts in
Terms of Frames of Reference 12. "Common Sense" Concepts of Space and Time
13. Introduction to Einstein's Conceptions of Space and Time 14. The
Lorentz Transformation in Einstein's Point of View 15. Addition of
Velocities 16. The Principle of Relativity 17. Some Applications of
Relativity 18. Momentum and Mass in Relativity 19. The Equivalence of Mass
and Energy 20. The Relativistic Transformation Law for Energy and Momentum
21. Charged Particles in an Electromagnetic Field 22. Experimental Evidence
for Special Relativity 23. More About the Equivalence of Mass and Energy
24. Towards a New Theory of Elementary Particles 25. The Falsification of
Theories 26. The Minkowski Diagram and the K Calculus 27. The Geometry of
Events and the Space-Time Continuum 28. The Questions of Causality and the
Maximum Speed of Propagation of Signals in Relativity Theory 29. Proper
Time 30. The "Paradox" of the Twins 31. The Significance of the Minkowski
Diagram as a Reconstruction of the Past. Appendix - Physics and Perception