Jump to content

The Principle of Relativity: Difference between revisions

From Natural Philosophy Wiki
Newer edit →
Imported from text file
 
Imported from text file
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox book
{{Infobox paper
| name = The Principle of Relativity
| title = The Principle of Relativity
| image = The Principle of Relativity 990.jpg
| author = [[]]
| author = [[Alfred North Whitehead]]
| keywords = [[Relativity]]
| published = 1922/2007
| published = 1962
| publisher = [[Cosimo Classics]]
| journal = [[None]]
| pages = 204
| pages = 108-114
| isbn = 1602062188
}}
}}


Following up on his two previous works, The Principles of Natural Knowledge and The Concept of Nature, Whitehead explains his alternative theory of relativity, which "cuts away the casual heterogeneity" of Einstein's later theory. Dividing his book into three parts--General Principles, Physical Applications, and Elementary Theory of Tensors--the author's arguments and observations utilize his own unique mix of nature, philosophy, and "the old division between physics and geometry." This work, first published in 1922, is essential reading for students, teachers, scientists, or anyone interested in the relationship of physics to philosophy. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored The Concept of Nature, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
==Abstract==


==Links to Purchase Book==
<span lang="EN-GB">    Summary extract:


* [[http://www.amazon.com/Principle-Relativity-Alfred-North-Whitehead/dp/1602062188/ref=pd_sim_b_1 The Principle of Relativity]][[Category:Book]]
# Up to now no acoustic Michelson test has been performed. Such a test could give much information and would also be of great importance in technology, since a clear idea could be gained about the propagation of waves from moving solids.
# In optics a Michelson test may be associated in a simple manner with a Fizeau test. For this purpose the mirrors of the M-test are excites by high-frequency acoustic waves. The changes in density within the mirror act a very fast grille shutter, so there is no longer interference between continous waves but only between discontinous impulses, as was originally supposed in the theory of the M-test.
 
</span>
 
[[Category:Scientific Paper|principle relativity]]


[[Category:Relativity]]
[[Category:Relativity]]

Revision as of 13:23, 1 January 2017

Scientific Paper
TitleThe Principle of Relativity
Author(s)[[]]
KeywordsRelativity
Published1962
JournalNone
Pages108-114

Abstract

Summary extract:

  1. Up to now no acoustic Michelson test has been performed. Such a test could give much information and would also be of great importance in technology, since a clear idea could be gained about the propagation of waves from moving solids.
  2. In optics a Michelson test may be associated in a simple manner with a Fizeau test. For this purpose the mirrors of the M-test are excites by high-frequency acoustic waves. The changes in density within the mirror act a very fast grille shutter, so there is no longer interference between continous waves but only between discontinous impulses, as was originally supposed in the theory of the M-test.

Retrieved from "http://naturalphilosophy.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Principle_of_Relativity&oldid=21646"