Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198974987
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 240x168 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 illlustrations 700
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Short description:
This book is a full, long-term history of relativity thinking in physics, from Galileo's early reflections on the proper reference of mechanical motion to Einstein's exploitation of relativity principles in his theories of special and general relativity.
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Motion is always relative to something. Is this thing a concrete body like the earth, is it an abstract space, or is it an imagined frame? Do the laws of physics depend on the choice of reference? Is there a choice for which the laws are simplest? Is this choice unique? Is there a physical cause for the choice made?
These questions traverse the history of modern physics from Galileo to Einstein. The answers involved Galilean relativity, Newton's absolute space, the purely relational concepts of Descartes, Leibniz, and Mach, and many forgotten uses of relativity principles in mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics?until the relativity theories of Poincaré, Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue radically redefined space and time to satisfy universal kinds of relativity.
This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it brings unprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew.
This book is not only an accurate history of the physical relativity principles of motion during the last three hundred years, it is also an important book about the cognitive relativity of scientists' understanding of issues that once were challenging but which present day physicists consider commonsense.
Table of Contents:
Rethinking motion in the seventeenth century
Deriving Newton's second law from relativity principles
The space-time-inertia tangle
The optics of moving bodies
The electrodynamics of moving bodies
Poincaré's relativity theory
The relativity theory of Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue
From Riemann to Ricci
Mostly Einstein: To general relativity
Mesh and measure in early general relativity
Epilogue
Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein
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