THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY PRINCIPLES, LOGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATION

THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY PRINCIPLES, LOGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATION

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1 THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY AND THE CONSTANCY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT

1.1. THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY1.1.1. Galilean

1.2. THE CONSTANCY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT

1.3. THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR POSTULATING THE CONSTANCY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT

1.4. THE LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE TWO POSTULATES

CONCLUSION

Chapter 2 THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT AND THE RELATIVE VELOCITY OF LIGHT

2.1. THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT

2.2. SUBSEQUENT AND MODERN VERSIONS OF THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT

2.3. TROUTON-NOBLE EXPERIMENT AND LEWIS-TOLMAN PARADOX

2.4. KENNEDY–THORNDIKE EXPERIMENT

2.5. OPTICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS OF THE LENGTH CONTRACTION

2.6. ANISOTROPY IN ONE-WAY VELOCITY OF LIGHT

2.7. LIGHT FROM MOVING SOURCES

2.8. ETHER DRAGGING, FIZEAU EXPERIMENT AND STELLAR ABERRATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 3 LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION AND ITS DERIVATION

3.1. LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

3.2. LORENTZ’S ORIGINAL IDEAS

3.3. DERIVATION OF LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY

3.4. DERIVATION OF A GENERAL TRANSFORMATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 4 VARIABLES IN THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

4.1. LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION IN LORENTZ ETHER THEORY

4.2. LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONIN EINSTEIN’S SPECIAL RELATIVITY

4.3. COMPARISON WITH LORENTZ ETHER THEORY

4.4.MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME AND THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

4.5. THE LOCAL DOMINANT GRAVITATIONAL FIELD HYPOTHESIS AND THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

4.6. LOGICAL CONSISTENCY ISSUE IN THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 5 TIME DILATION AND TIME PARADOXES

5.1. DERIVATION OF TIME DILATION

5.2.TWIN PARADOX

5.3. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF TIME DILATION

5.4. LOGICAL CONSISTENCY OF TIME DILATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 6 LENGTH CONTRACTION AND LENGTH PARADOXES

6.1. DERIVATION OF LENGTH CONTRACTION

6.2. LENGTH PARADOXES

6.3. TESTS OF LENGTH CONTRACTION

6.4. LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF RELATIVISTIC LENGTH CONTRACTION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 7 MASS, MOTION, MOMENTUM AND RELATED PARADOXES

7.1.MASS AND MOMENTUM IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY

7.2.MASS AND MOMENTUM IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS

7.3. ELECTROMAGNETIC MASS AND MOVING MASS

7.4. RELATIVISTIC DERIVATION OF MOVING MASS

7.5. PARADOXES WITH RELATIVISTIC MASS

7.6. MOVING MASS IN LORENTZ ETHER THEORY, SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND THE LOCAL DOMINANT GRAVITATIONAL FIELD HYPOTHESIS

7.7. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF RELATIVISTIC MASS AND MOMENTUM

7.8. THE LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF VELOCITY-MASS RELATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 8 MASS-ENERGY RELATION

8.1. EARLY VIEWS ON MASS-ENERGY RELATIONSHIP

8.2. DERIVATION OF MASS-ENERGY RELATION IN THE EVE OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

8.3. RELATIVISTIC DERIVATIONS OF MASS-ENERGY RELATION

8.4. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF MASS-ENERGY RELATION

8.5. LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF MASS-ENERGY RELATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 9 TIME, SPACE AND SIMULTANEITY

9.1. SPACE AND TIME

9.2. SIMULTANEITY

9.3. LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF RELATIVISTIC SIMULTANEITY

9.4. THE LOCAL DOMINANT GRAVITATIONAL FIELD HYPOTHESIS

CONCLUSION

Chapter 10 TEST THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

10.1. CRITERIA FOR EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION

10.2. TEST THEORIES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

10.3. LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF TEST-THEORIES BASED EXPERIMENTS

10.4. A NEW TEST THEORY

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INDEX