Lecture 4: The Characteristics Of Space A. The Geometry Of The Gravitational Field
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| Source | Four Lectures on Relativity and Space |
| Year | 1923 |
| Section ID | four-lectures-relativity-space-lecture-04 |
| Location | lines 3595-6820 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 18408 |
| Equation Candidates In Section | 66 |
| Figure Candidates In Section | 8 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”LECTURE IV THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPACE A. THE GEOMETRY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD The starting point of the relativity theory is that the laws of nature, including the velocity of light in empty space, are the same everywhere and with regard to any system to which they may be referred — whether on the revolving platform of the earth or in the speeding railway train or in the space between the fixed stars. From this it follows that the length of a body is not a fixed property of it, but is relative, depending on the conditions of obser- vation— the relative velocity of the observer with regard to the body. It also is shown that the laws of motion of bodies in a gravitational field are identical with the laws of inertial motion withSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Field language
Section titled “Field language”LECTURE IV THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPACE A. THE GEOMETRY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD The starting point of the relativity theory is that the laws of nature, including the velocity of light in empty space, are the same everywhere and with regard to any system to which they may be referred — whether on the revolving platform of the earth or in the speeding r ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”LECTURE IV THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPACE A. THE GEOMETRY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD The starting point of the relativity theory is that the laws of nature, including the velocity of light in empty space, are the same everywhere and with regard to any system to which they may be referred — whether on the revolving platform of the earth or in the speeding railway train or in the space between the fixed stars. From this it follows that the length of a body is n ...Ether references
Section titled “Ether references”... ARACTERISTICS OF SPACE A. THE GEOMETRY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD The starting point of the relativity theory is that the laws of nature, including the velocity of light in empty space, are the same everywhere and with regard to any system to which they may be referred — whether on the revolving platform of the earth or in the speeding railway train or in the space between the fixed stars. From this it follows that the length of a body is not a fixed property of it, but is relative, depending on the conditions of obser- vation— the relative velocit ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... e angles are the same, etc. Thus the characteristic constant, or the curvature of the space, remains unchanged by the bending of the space. Euclidean 2-space thus is the plane and any surface made by bending it or a part of it in any desired manner — • into cylinder, cone, wave surface, etc; elliptic 2-space is the sphere and any surface made by bending a piece of the sphere into some other shape, as a spindle; hyperbolic 2-space is the pseudo-sphere — ^not existing in Euclidean 3-space — or any surface which can be considered as made by bending a ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0105 | conditions: C = ird, > 7r(iand<7rd. | line 3774 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0106 | analogy with two-dimensional spaces, or 2-spaces. We can | line 4176 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0107 | the same characteristic constant as the elliptic 2-space, the | line 4387 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0108 | 1 - C/27rr (1) | line 4439 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0109 | diameter, the quantity (1) is not constant, but depends on | line 4445 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0110 | /vi = 1/R, (3) | line 4501 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0111 | A% = I/R1R2. (4) | line 4526 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-eq-candidate-0112 | It can be shown that the characteristic constant (2) of | line 4528 |
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four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-020 | R = j/VK. (15) Fig. 20. E. THE STRAIGHT LINE AND THE ELLIPTIC 2-SPACE | line 4631 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-021 | line between them, as Li or L2 — shown dotted in Fig. 21 — Fig. 21. is longer. Suppose we have a straight line L in the plane Fig. 21 and a point P outside of L. Any line drawn… | line 4776 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-025 | The mathematical n-space merely is the continuous mani- FiG. 25. fold of oo« elements which are given by the n ratios: x : y : | line 5036 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-029 | however, are no part of projective geometry, as they are Fig. 29. made by its relation to infinity and therefore are metric in character : The hyperbola has two infinitely dista… | line 5667 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-030 | with regard to a conic, then the line connecting the points Fig. 30. pi and P2 is the polar of the point of intersection of Pi and | line 5703 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-031 | of these six lines by e = ah, cd;f = ac, hd; g = ad, he, and Fig. 31. draw the three additional lines ef, eg and fg, we get a total of nine lines and four points on each of thes… | line 5727 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-032 | tant (that is, very far distant) we thus recognize by the Fig. 32. two lines of sight from our eyes to the object having the same direction. | line 6025 |
four-lectures-relativity-space-fig-033 | parallels Li and Lo through a point P — that is, two lines Fig. 33. which intersect L at infinity — and these tvv^o parallels Li and L2 make an angle L1PL2 with each other. Thus L] | line 6078 |
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