Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2020-10-04 Public domain in the USA. 238 Bird, J. Malcolm (James Malcolm) 1886 1964 Bird, James Malcolm Einstein, Albert 1879 1955 Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation A selection of material from the essays submitted in the competition for the Eugene Higgins prize of $5,000 $aUnited States :$bScientific American Publishing Co., Munn & Co.,$c1921. The Einstein $5,000 prize: how the contest came to be held, and some of the details of its conduct -- The world--and us: an introductory discussion of the philosophy of relativity, and of the mechanism of our contact with time and space -- The relativity of uniform motion: classical ideas on the subject; the ether and the apparent possibility of absolute motion; the Michelson-Morley experiment and the final negation of this possibility -- The special theory of relativity: what Einstein's study of uniform motion tells us about time and space and the nature of the external reality -- That parallel postulate: modern geometric methods; the dividing line between Euclidean and non-Euclidean; and the significance of the latter -- The space-time continuum: Minkowski's world of events, and the way in which it fits into Einstein's structure -- Relativity: the winning essay in the contest for the Eugene Higgins $5,000 prize -- the new concepts of time and space: the essay in behalf of which the greatest number of dissenting opinions have been recorded -- The principle of relativity: a statement of what it is all about, in ideas of one syllable -- Space, time and gravitation: an outline of Einstein's theory of general relativity -- The principle of general relativity: how Einstein, to a degree never before equalled, isolates the external reality from the observer's contribution -- Force vs. geometry: how Einstein has substituted the second for the first in connection with the cause of gravitation -- An introduction to relativity: a treatment in which the mathematical connections of Einstein's work are brought out more strongly and more successfully than usual in a popular explanation -- New concepts for old: what the world looks like after Einstein has had his way with it -- The New World: a universe in which geometry takes the place of physics, and curvature that of force -- The quest of the absolute: modern developments in theoretical physics, and the climax supplied by Einstein -- The physical side of relativity: the immediate contacts between Einstein's theories and current physics and astronomy -- The practical significance of relativity: the best discussion of the special theory among all the competing essays -- Einstein's theory of relativity: a simple explanation of his postulates and their consequences -- Einstein's theory of gravitation: the discussion of the general theory and its most important application -- The equivalence hypothesis: the discussion of this, with its difficulties and the manner in which Einstein has resolved them -- The general theory: fragments of particular merit on this phase of the subject. Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) 1921 US en Relativity (Physics) QC Text Browsing: Science - Physics Browsing: Science - General 802659 802703 2024-07-26T07:29:41.873457 2023-09-27T07:22:30.818003 text/html text/html 714876 2020-10-10T09:29:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 787850 2020-10-04T10:52:42 text/html 976160 2024-07-26T07:30:23.709247 application/epub+zip 973373 2024-07-26T07:29:47.349442 application/epub+zip 346583 2024-07-26T07:29:44.770468 application/epub+zip 1260030 2024-07-26T07:30:33.073208 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4375580 2024-07-26T07:30:20.746277 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477085 2022-09-28T15:30:18.196430 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 575179 575207 2024-07-26T07:29:38.782490 2023-09-27T07:22:28.115995 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 199103 2020-10-10T09:28:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 575342 2020-10-10T09:28:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21378 2024-07-26T07:30:33.261196 application/rdf+xml 22157 2024-07-26T07:29:44.959453 image/jpeg 3340 2024-07-26T07:29:44.866443 image/jpeg 719893 2024-07-26T07:29:42.129490 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia en.wikipedia