Relativity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Born in Switzerland, died in the USA. Brilliant physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1921, the same year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.

'He was unfathomably profound - the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.' - Time'Much of the book is a delight.' - Stephen Battersby, New Scientist'[Einstein] is a far better populariser of science than Stephen Hawking ... you'll feel as though you have a ringside seat at a revolution in human understanding.' - Guardian

• Part 1 The Special Theory of Relativity; Chapter 1 Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions; Chapter 2 The System of Co-ordinates; Chapter 3 Space and Time in Classical Mechanics; Chapter 4 The Galileian System of Co-ordinates; Chapter 5 The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense); Chapter 6 The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities Employed in Classical Mechanics; Chapter 7 The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity; Chapter 8 On the Idea of Time in Physics; Chapter 9 The Relativity of Simultaneity; Chapter 10 On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance; Chapter 11 The Lorentz Transformation; Chapter 12 The Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion; Chapter 13 Theorem of the Addition of Velocities. The Experiment of Fizeau; Chapter 14 The Heuristic Value of the Theory of Relativity; Chapter 15 General Results of the Theory; Chapter 16 Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity; Chapter 17 Minkowski’s Four-dimensional Space; Part 2 The General Theory of Relativity; Chapter 18 Special and General Principle of Relativity; Chapter 19 The Gravitational Field; Chapter 20 The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity; Chapter 21 In What Respects are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of the Special Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory?; Chapter 22 A Few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity; Chapter 23 Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on A Rotating Body of Reference; Chapter 24 Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Continuum; Chapter 25 Gaussian Co-ordinates; Chapter 26 The Space-Time Continuum of the Special Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum; Chapter 27 The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity Is Not a Euclidean Continuum; Chapter 28 Exact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity; Chapter 29 The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle of Relativity; Part 3 Considerations on the Universe as a Whole; Chapter 30 Cosmological Difficulties of Newton’s Theory; Chapter 31 The Possibility of a “Finite’’ and Yet “Unbounded” Universe; Chapter 32 The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity;