Relativity Physics and Science Calculator - Introduction

• home page - a voyage of knowledge
• relativity calculator glossary
• some quick and dirty mathematical references
• appendix
• fundamental constants
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Early History of Mathematical Physics

• a thumbnail history of the time clock
• a thumbnail history of the philosophy of mathematics
• the challenge of plato's cave
• early models of the universe
• the conflict of science and religion
• earth's circumference
• kepler's 1st law of motion
• → proof: kepler's 1st law of motion
• kepler's 2nd law of motion
• → proof: kepler's 2nd law of motion
• kepler's 3rd law of motion
• → proof: kepler's 3rd law of motion
• galileo galilei
• mach's conjecture principle of inertia
• definition of parallax
• parallax and history
• earth - sun distance
• olaf roemer and the speed of light
• isaac newton's axioms or laws of motion
• isaac newton's universal law of gravitation
• the calculus
• some consequences of kepler, galileo, and newton equations
• 2 - body problem
• rocket equations: newton's 3rd law of motion
• distance - time and the john harrison clocks which measured both

Special Relativity Physics Mathematics

• michelson-morley experiment - part i
• michelson-morley experiment - part ii
• michelson-morley experiment - part iii
• michelson-morley experiment - part iv
• maxwell's equations
• stationary vs. moving clocks
• galilean - newton relativity vs. special and general relativity
• lorentz transformation equations
• → solution to equation (7a)
• → solution to equation (9)
• a simpler lorentz transformation derivation
• some results of the lorentz transformation equations
• relativistic sinusoidal wave function
• time as the 4th dimension
• addition of relativistic velocities
• 1851 fizeau water experiment
• nature's laws of conservation
• law of conservation of orbital angular momentum
• → celestial bodies moments of inertia
• impulse and momentum
• law of energy conservation and the doppler effect
• binomial series expansion
• mass as a variable quantity
• e=mc²
• star aberration
• minkowski's special relativity geometry
• minkowski's and bondi's geometry derivation of the lorentz time - distance transformation equations
• proper time
• space - time ( spacetime ) fabric ( or what exactly is it? )
• some consequences of e=mc²
• 4 - vector analysis of bodies of matter
• the relativistic photon rocket
• superluminal velocities observed in quasars
• explaining relativity for the laymen
• explaining the speed of light
• explaining mass as a variable for the laymen
• explaining relativity of time
• doppler: sound and time dilation
• explaining why no object or person can travel faster than the speed of light
• explaining spacetime fabric for the layman
• rare max fleischer's silent film "The Einstein Theory of Relativity, 1923"
• philosophical meanings of relativity
• anti - semitism and special relativity ( or, who was the very first german nazi? )
• joke: einstein's theory of jewish relativity

Quantum Physics

• multiple universes by hugh everett, scientific american
• de broglie's quantum equations
• heisenberg uncertainty principle
• compton effect
• the photoelectric effect
• is spacetime foam a physical reality?

General Relativity Physics Mathematics

• einstein's collected papers
• → einstein's princeton papers
• → the hebrew university - einstein relativity papers
• → einstein archives online
• einstein's original 1916 general relativity paper - english version
• einstein's original 1916 general relativity paper - german version
• historical account of einstein's final review paper for his published 1916 general relativity paper
• the algebra of matrices
• cramer's rule
• pythagoras and cosines
• orthonormal curvilinear base vectors
• brief vector and tensor analysis
• reinterpreting galileo and newton's relativity principle
• the twin clock paradox
• the metric tensor: g, the littlest directional cosines
• riemann's flat ( inertial, non - accelerating ) spacetime metric
• the geodesic spacetime equation
• → deriving the 4 - acceleration vector
• → deriving the 4 - force vector
• einstein's gravity equation
• → converting a covariant divergence into an ordinary divergence
• → deriving the einstein tensor using the variational calculus of differentiation
• → first revealing einstein's coupling constant kappa bridging geometry and physics using hamilton's principle of least action
• → ricci theorem proof
• the schwarzschild equation
• mercury's orbital precession advance
• the null geodesic
• general relativity: deriving newton's laws of motion and gravity
• the deflection ( bending ) of light
• einstein's gravitational time dilation and spectral red - shift
• einstein's gravitational waves
• → harmonic coordinates system in general relativity
• → einstein's gravitational waves definitively detected

Cosmology

• neils bohr institute - our cosmic roots
• light from galaxy clusters confirm general theory of relativity
• radial velocity equation in the search for exoplanets
• black holes: masters of the universe
• → kerr metric derivation

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