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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein
 
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Table of Contents
Written:
1916
Source:
Relativity: The Special and General Theory © 1920
Publisher:
Methuen & Co Ltd
First Published:
December, 1916
Translated:
Robert W. Lawson (Authorised translation)
Transcription/Markup/PDF:
 Brian Basgen
Copyleft:
 Einstein Reference Archive(marxists.org) 1999, 2002.
Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License.
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt). 
Preface
 
Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity01.Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions02.The System of Co-ordinates03.Space and Time in Classical Mechanics04.The Galileian System of Co-ordinates05.The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense)06.The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities employed in Classical Mechanics07.The Apparent Incompatability of the Law of Propagation of Light with thePrinciple of Relativity08.On the Idea of Time in Physics
 
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09.The Relativity of Simultaneity10.On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance11.The Lorentz Transformation12.The Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion13.Theorem of the Addition of Velocities. The Experiment of Fizeau14.The Hueristic Value of the Theory of Relativity15.General Results of the Theory16.Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity17.Minkowski's Four-dimensial Space
 
Part II: The General Theory of Relativity18.Special and General Principle of Relativity19.The Gravitational Field20.The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the GeneralPostulate of Relativity21.In What Respects are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of theSpecial Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory?22.A Few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity23.Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference24.Euclidean and non-Euclidean Continuum25.Gaussian Co-ordinates26.The Space-Time Continuum of the Speical Theory of Relativity Considered asa Euclidean Continuum
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