Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein / Olivier Darrigol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darrigol, Olivier, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relativity (Physics)--History.

Relativity (Physics).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking motion in the seventeenth century

1.1. Galileo's science of motion

1.2. Beeckman and Descartes on free fall

1.3. Descartes's world

1.4. Newton's laws of motion

1.5. Huygens's mechanics

Conclusions

2. Deriving Newton's second law from relativity principles

2.1. Rational mechanics in the eighteenth century

2.2. Nineteenth-century French textbooks

2.3. Principles and deductions

3. The space-time-inertia tangle

3.1. From Huygens to Kant

3.2. Criticism in the last third of the nineteenth century

3.3. The measurement of time

4. The optics of moving bodies

4.1. The speed of light

4.2. The corpuscular approach

4.3. Stellar aberrations in the wave theory

4.4. The Fresnel drag

4.5. Toward an optical relativity

5. The electrodynamics of moving bodies

5.1. Early electrodynamics

5.2. German action at a distance

5.3. British field theories

5.4. Maxwell in Germany

5.5. Effects of absolute motion

5.6. The separation of ether and matter

6. Poincare's relativity theory

6.1. Critical teaching

6.2. For the Lorentz jubilee

6.3. Inside the electron

6.4. The postulate of relativity

7. The relativity theory of Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue

7.1. The young Einstein's ventures in electrodynamics

7.2. Alternatives to Lorentz's theory

7.3. Einstein's relativity theory

7.4. Early reception 1905-1908

7.5. Constructing a relativistic electron

7.6. Outside Germany

8. From Riemann to Ricci

8.1. Gauss's curved surfaces

8.2. Riemann's curvature

8.3. Non-Euclidean geometries

8.4. The absolute differential calculus

9. Mostly Einstein: To general relativity

9.1. Heuristic arguments (1906-1911)

9.2. The static theory of 1912

9.3. The Zurich notebook

9.4. The Entwurf theory of 1913

9.5. The scalar theory

9.6. Bridled covariance

9.7. Justified transformations and adapted coordinates

9.8. November 1915

10. Mesh and measure in early general relativity

10.1. A Gaussian preliminary

10.2. Einstein's Grundlage of 1916

10.3. The gravitational redshift

10.4. The gravitational deflection of light

10.5. The advance of Mercury's perihelion

11. Epilogue

11.1. Actors and stages

11.2. Mechanical relativity

11.3. Optical relativity

11.4. Electrodynamic relativity

11.5. Special relativity

11.6. General relativity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0192849530

9780192849533

OCLC:

1258675513

Publisher Number:

99989829084