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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486438880

ISBN-139780486438887

eBay Product ID (ePID)30766704

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePrinciple of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science

Publication Year2004

SubjectPhysics / Relativity

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlfred North Whitehead

Subject AreaScience

SeriesDover Books on Physics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight14.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2004-050197

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal530.11

SynopsisAn exposition of an alternative rendering of the theory of relativity, this volume is the work of the distinguished English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead. Suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, its three-part treatment begins with an overview of general principles that may be described as mainly philosophical in character. Part II is devoted to physical applications and chiefly concerns the particular results deducible from the formulas assumed for the gravitation and electromagnetic fields. The final part consists of an exposition of the elementary theory of tensors.The author notes that the text's order proceeds naturally from general principles to particular applications, concluding with a general exposition of the mathematical theory, special examples of which have occurred in the discussion of the applications. Physicists, Whitehead suggests, may prefer to start with Part II, referring back to a few formulas mentioned at the end of Part I, and mathematicians may start with Part III. The whole evidence, he adds, requires a consideration of all three parts., An exposition of an alternative rendering of the theory of relativity, this volume is the work of the distinguished English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead. Suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, its three-part treatment begins with an overview of general principles that may be described as mainly philosophical in character. Part II is devoted to physical applications and chiefly concerns the particular results deducible from the formulas assumed for the gravitation and electromagnetic fields. The final part consists of an exposition of the elementary theory of tensors. The author notes that the text's order proceeds naturally from general principles to particular applications, concluding with a general exposition of the mathematical theory, special examples of which have occurred in the discussion of the applications. Physicists, Whitehead suggests, may prefer to start with Part II, referring back to a few formulas mentioned at the end of Part I, and mathematicians may start with Part III. The whole evidence, he adds, requires a consideration of all three parts.

LC Classification NumberQC6.W57 2004