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Relativity: The Special and General Theory

preface.

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NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION

biography.

Biographical Note

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TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

contents.

1.

PART I THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

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PART II THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

18.

SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

19.

THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

20.

THE EQUALITY OF INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE GENERAL POSTULE OF RELATIVITY

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IN WHAT RESPECTS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY UNSATISFACTORY?

22.

A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

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BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE

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EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM

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GAUSSIAN CO-ORDINATES

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THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE SPEICAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONSIDERED AS A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM

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THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF REALTIIVTY IS NOT A ECULIDEAN CONTINUUM

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EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

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THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GRAVITATION ON THE BASIS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

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PART III CONSIDERATIONS ON THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE

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APPENDIX I SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XI)

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APPENDIX II MINKOWSKI'S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE ("WORLD") (SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION XVII)

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APPENDIX III THE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

Bibliography.

Bibliography WORKS IN ENGLISH ON EINSTEIN'S THEORY

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note. NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION

IN the present year (1918) an excellent and detailed manual on the general theory of relativity, written by H. Weyl, was published by the firm of Julius Springer (Berlin). This book, entitled Raum - Zeit - Materie (Space - Time - Matter), may be warmly recommended to mathematicians and physicists.