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Table of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE: POSING MODELS
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Models: The Products of Science
- 1.3 The Geocentric Model
- 1.4 The Heliocentric Model
- 1.5 Galileo
- 1.6 A New Physics: Isaac Newton
- 1.7 Beyond Newtonian Physics
- 1.8 Summary: The Characteristics of Scientific Models
- CHAPTER 2: THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND
- 2.1 Newtonian Physics
- 2.2 Space, Time, and Motion
- 2.3 The Three Laws of Motion
- 2.4 The Meaning of Newton's First Law of Motion
- 2.5 The Meaning of Newton's Second Law of Motion
- 2.6 The Meaning of Newton's Third Law of Motion
- 2.7 Maxwell's Model of Electromagnetic Phenomena
- CHAPTER 3: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Einstein's Search: Operational Definitions
- 3.3 The Problem of Defining Time
- 3.4 Einstein Defines a Common Time System
- 3.5 The Problem with Moving Observers
- 3.6 The Two Postulates of Special Relativity Theory
- 3.7 The Relativity of Time Measurements
- 3.8 The Relativity of Length Measurements
- 3.9 Summary and Confirmation of the Special Theory of Relativity
- 3.10 The Role of Light
- 3.11 Space, Time, and Spacetime
- CHAPTER 4: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The Lorentz Transformations
- 4.3 Not Everything Is Relative
- 4.4 The "Ultimate Speed Limit"
- 4.5 How Inertia (Mass) Varies with Speed
- 4.6 Some Apparent Paradoxes Resulting from Application of the Special Theory of Relativity
- 4.7 When Is "Now?"
- 4.8 The Relativity of Temporal Order and Causality
- 4.9 How Objects Appear When Moving By at Very High Speeds
- CHAPTER 5: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The Need to Extend the Principle of Relativity
- 5.3 The Principle of Equivalence
- 5.4 Results of the General Theory: Relativity in the Measurement of Time and Space
- 5.5 Relativity of Time Measurements
- 5.6 Relativity of Space Measurements
- 5.7 Space, Time, and Spacetime
- 5.8 The Shift of Star Positions and the Principle of Equivalence
- 5.9 The Quantitative Formulation of General Relativity
- CHAPTER 6: COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Observing the Universe of Galaxies
- 6.3 Cosmological Models from General Relativity
- 6.4 A Newtonian View of Relativistic Cosmological Models
- 6.5 Einstein's Blunder: The Cosmological Constant
- 6.6 Interpreting the Hubble Relation As an "Expansion"
- 6.7 What Type of Universe Is This?
- CODA
- APPENDIX A: THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 A Review of Minkowski Diagrams: Still More Experiments on the Railroad Track
- A.3 The Lorentz Transformations
- A.4 Using the Minkowski Diagram to Predict Relativity Effects
- A.5 The Invariant Interval and Minkowski Diagrams
- APPENDIX B: EXPLANATION OF RULES I AND II FOR SOLVING THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS IN MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS
- APPENDIX C: THE TROUBLE WITH TACHYONS
- C.l Introduction
- C.2 Tachyons in the Minkowski Diagram
- C.3 Tachyons and Moving Observers
- C.4 What If Tachyons Do Exist?
- APPENDIX D: MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- D.l Introduction
- D.2 The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations
- D.3 Electromagnetic Waves
- D.4 The Speed of Light
- D.5 The Unity of Electric and Magnetic Forces and the Title of Einstein's 1905 Paper on Relativity
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
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