ABC of relativity / Bertrand Russell ; with an introduction by Peter Clark.
Pubblicazione:
London : Routledge, 1997.
Descrizione fisica:
XVI, 155 p. ; 20 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. Touch and sight: the Earth and the heavens 2. What happens and what is observed 3. The velocity of light 4. Clocks and foot-rules 5. Space-time 6. The special theory of relativity 7. Intervals in space-time 8. Einstein's law of gravitation 9. Proofs of Einstein's law of gravitation 10. Mass, momentum, energy, and action 11. The expanding universe 12. Conventions and natural laws 13. The abolition of force 14. What is matter? 15. Philosophical consequences
