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nydus/Relativity: The Special and General TheoryPublic

Albert Einstein provides a non-mathematical exposition of the special and general theories of relativity for readers interested in physics and philosophy. The text presents the core concepts in their original sequence and aims to explain the theories as simply as possible for those with a standard university-level education.

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Aberration 49

Absorption of energy 46

Acceleration 64, 67, 70

Action at a distance 48

Addition of velocities 16, 38

Adjacent points 89

Aether 52 drift@-drift#drift 52, 53

Arbitrary substitutions 98

Astronomy 7, 102

Astronomical day 11

Axioms 2, 123 truth of 2

Bachem 131

Basis of theory 44

Being@"Being"#Being 66, 108

beta-rays@β-rays#rays 50

Biology 124

Cartesian system of co-ordinates 7, 84, 122

Cathode rays 50

Celestial mechanics 105

Centrifugal force 80, 130

Chest 66

Conception of mass 45 position 6

Conservation of energy 45, 101 impulse 101 mass 45, 47

Continuity 95

Continuum 55, 83 two-dimensional 94 three-dimensional 57 four-dimensional 89, 91, 92, 94, 122 space-time 78, 91-96 Euclidean 84, 86, 88, 92 non-Euclidean 86, 90

Coordinate@Co-ordinate#Co-ordinate differences 92 differentials 92 planes 32

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