Reflections on Relativity

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Reflections on Relativity By: Kevin Brown ISBN 10: 1257033026 ISBN 13: 9781257033027 OCLC Number: 756822925 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: Publisher: Lulu  (2015) _________________________________________ Uploader's Notes: HTML >   Epub with Calibre/Sigil Spellchecked Formatted Validated  with ADE, Sumatra & Browser _________________________________________ "Reflections on Relativity" is a comprehensive presentation of the classical, special, and general theories of relativity, including in-depth historical perspectives, showing how the relativity principle has repeatedly inspired advances in our understanding of the physical world.      Preface     1.1 From Experience to Spacetime     1.2 Systems of Reference     1.3 Inertia and Relativity     1.4 The Relativity of Light     1.5 Corresponding States     1.6 A More Practical Arrangement     1.7 Staircase Wit     1.8 More Symmetry     1.9 Null Coordinates     2.1 The Spacetime Interval     2.2 Force Laws and Maxwell's Equations     2.3 The Inertia of Energy     2.4 Doppler Shift for Sound and Light     2.5 Stellar Aberration     2.6 Mobius Transformations of The Night Sky     2.7 The Sagnac Effect     2.8 Refraction At A Plane Boundary Between Moving Media     2.9 Accelerated Travels     2.10 The Starry Messenger     2.11 Thomas Precession     3.1 Postulates and Principles     3.2 Natural and Violent Motions     3.3 De Mora Luminis     3.4 Stationary Paths     3.5 A Quintessence of So Subtle A Nature     3.6 The End of My Latin     3.7 Zeno and the Paradox of Motion     3.8 A Very Beautiful Day     3.9 Constructing the Principles     4.1 Immovable Spacetime     4.2 Inertial and Gravitational Separations     4.3 Free-Fall Equations     4.4 Force, Curvature, and Uncertainty     4.5 Conventional Wisdom     4.6 The Field of All Fields     4.7 The Inertia of Twins     4.8 The Breakdown of Simultaneity     5.1 Vis Inertiae     5.2 Tensors, Contravariant and Covariant     5.3 Curvature, Intrinsic and Extrinsic     5.4 Relatively Straight     5.5 Schwarzschild Metric From Kepler's 3rd Law     5.6 The Equivalence Principle     5.7 Riemannian Geometry     5.8 The Field Equations     6.1 An Exact Solution     6.2 Anomalous Precessions     6.3 Bending Light     6.4 Radial Paths in a Spherically Symmetrical Field     6.5 Proper Time for Intersecting Orbits     6.6 Ideal Clocks in Arbitrary Motion     6.7 Gravitational Acceleration in Schwarzschild Coordinates     6.8 Moving Sources and Gravitational Waves     7.1 Is the Universe Closed?     7.2 The Formation and Growth of Black Holes     7.3 Falling Into and Hovering Near A Black Hole     7.4 Curled-Up Dimensions     7.5 Packing Universes In Spacetime     7.6 Cosmological Coherence     7.7 Boundaries and Symmetries     7.8 Global Interpretations of Local Experience     8.1 Kepler, Napier, and the Third Law     8.2 Newton's Cosmological Queries     8.3 The Helen of Geometers     8.4 Refractions on Relativity     8.5 Scholium     8.6 On Gauss's Mountains     8.7 Strange Meeting     8.8 Who Invented Relativity?     8.9 Doubling the Deflection     8.10 Conquering the Perihelion     8.11 Paths Not Taken     9.1 In the Neighborhood     9.2 Up To Diffeomorphism     9.3 Higher-Order Metrics     9.4 Polarization and Spin     9.5 Entangled Events     9.6 Von Neumann's Postulate and Bell’s Freedom     9.7 Angels and Archetypes     9.8 Quaedam Tertia Natura Abscondita     9.9 Locality and Temporal Asymmetry     9.10 Spacetime Mediation of Quantum Interactions     Conclusion     Appendices