Classical Physics, Vol. 3: High-Velocity Mechanics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Stefan Marinov

9780267623549: Classical Physics, Vol. 3: High-Velocity Mechanics (Classic Reprint)

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Since the masses of the material points are a measure of their kinetic energy as well as of the gravitational energy to which they contribute, the so-called principle OF equi valence can be stated as follows: Any gravitational field in a small region around a given point in space can be replaced by a suitable non-inertial frame of reference (or vice versa), so that the behaviour of the particles in an inertial frame of reference in the presence of a gravitational field is indistinguishable from their behaviour in a suitable non-inertial frame without the gravitational field.

Einstein generalized and absolutized also the principle of equivalence (as he did with the principle of relativity), postulating that it is by no means possible to establish whether the acceleration exerted on particles in a laboratory has a kinematic (mechanic)

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