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The theoretical significance of experimental relativity
- Title
- The theoretical significance of experimental relativity / R.H. Dicke.
- Author
- Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
- Publication
- New York : Gordon and Breach, 1964.
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- Description
- xii, 153 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Documents on modern physics
- Uniform Title
- Documents on modern physics
- Subject
- Note
- These lectures were presented at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics, and published in the proceedings volume, Relativity, groups and topology, 1964. Corrected and amended for this ed.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- pt. I. Null experiments. Eörvös experiment -- Space isotropies -- The ether drift experiments -- pt. II. Three famous tests of general relativity. The gravitational red shift -- The gravitational deflection of light -- The perihelion rotation of Mercury -- Cosmic experiments -- Appendix I. Experimental tests of Mach's principle -- Appendix II. Mach's principle and invariance under transformation of units -- Appendix III. Long-range scalar interaction -- Appendix IV. Field theories of gravitation -- Appendix V. Cosmology, Mach's principle and relativity -- Appendix VI. Significance of spatial isotropy -- Appendix VII. Mach's principle and a relativistic theory of gravitation -- Appendix VIII. Lee-Yang vector field and isotropy of the universe -- Appendix IX. The earth and cosmology -- Appendix X. Implications for cosmology of stellar and galactic evolution rates -- Appendix XI. Dating the galaxy by uranium decay -- Appendix XII. Dirac's cosmology and the dating of meteorites.
- LCCN
- 64025799
- OCLC
- ocm00531425
- 531425
- SCSB-188153
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library