A01=Mendel Sachs
advanced undergraduate physics
Aperiodic Motion
Asymmetric Ageing
Author_Mendel Sachs
Baruch Spinoza5
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contemporary relativity research
Energy Conservation
Energy Momentum Tensor
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field theory applications
Galileo's Principle
Galileo’s Principle
General Relativity Theory
Gravitational Force
Gravitational Red Shift
Higgs Field
Hubble Law
Inertial Frames
Inertial Reference Frame
Lorentz Transformation
Mach principle
Magnetic Forces
Mathematical Expressions
Michelson Morley Experiment
nonlinear dynamics
Ordinary Differential Equation
philosophy of science
Rest Energy
Riemannian Geometry
Riemannian Space Time
Round Trip Journey
spacetime physics
Unified Field Theory
Variable Force Field
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780748401178
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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"Relativity In our Time" is a book concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory to human relations in contemporary times. lt is physics and it is philosophy. lt is a discussion about one of the greatest of all pillars of 20th century thought and science. Based on a seminar course for a mixture of science and humanities students, the approach and narrative style leads the reader towards the frontier of thinking in this farreaching subject. Sachs deals with the whole spread of relativity, starting from the early history of Galileo and Faraday, he arrives at the foundation of the special theory. There is a logical transition to the general theory while the last part of the book covers the mind-testing realms of unified field theory, Mach's principle and cosmology. The book begins with atomistic, deterministic, classical physics and goes on towards a view of continuous fields of matter and a clearer view of spacetime. The reader is led into Einstein's extension of this theory towards a unified force field; consequently the authors address the issue of the validity of linear mathematics compared with the realism of a non- linear universe.; Such arguments today are leading towards a new paradigm in science - a study and description of nonlinear natural systems especially far from equilibrium systems; their energetics and dynamics. This book should be of value to postgraduates, undergraduates, secondary students and professionals in physics and philosophy and anyone with an interest in science subjects.
