INDEX
A
Accelerated massesinductive action of, 113.
Addition and subtraction of tensors, 14.
— theorem of velocities, 40.
B
Biot-Savart force, 46.
C
Centrifugal force, 67.
Clocks–moving, 39.
Compressible viscous fluid, 22.
Concept of space, 3.
– – time, 30.
Conditions of orthogonality, 7.
Congruence–theorems of, 3.
Conservation principles, 55.
Continuum–four-dimensional, 33.
Contraction of tensors, 15.
Contra-variant vectors, 72.
– – tensors, 75.
Co-ordinates–preferred systems of, 8.
Co-variance of equation of continuity, 22.
Co-variant, 12 et seq.
– – vector, 72.
Criticism of principle of inertia, 65.
Criticisms of theory of relativity, 31.
Curvilinear co-ordinates, 68.
D
Differentiation of tensors, 76, 79.
Displacement of spectral lines, 101.
E
Energy and mass, 48, 51.
– tensor of electromagnetic field, 52.
– – of matter, 56.
Equation of continuity–co-variance of, 22.
Equations of motion of materia particle, 52.
Equivalence of mass and energy, 51.
Equivalent spaces of reference, 26.
Euclidean geometry, 4.
F
Finiteness of universe, 110.
Fizeau, 29.
Four-dimensional continuum, 33.
Four-vector, 43.
Fundamental tensor, 74.
G
Galilean regions, 65.
– transformation, 28.
Gauss, 68.
Geodetic lines, 86.
Geometry, Euclidean, 4.
Gravitational mass, 63.
Gravitation constant, 98.
H
Homogeneity of space, 17.
Hydrodynamical equations, 56.
Hypotheses of pre-relativity physics, 77.
