Special Relativity, Tensors, And Energy Tensor: With Worked Problems

Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Langevin
	2. The Story in Short
		2.1. The Langevin Article
		2.2. Einstein in Paris: The Meeting with Bergson
		2.3. The First Reactions
		2.4. The Deluge of Solutions After 1950
		2.5. The Solution of Møller (1952)
		2.6. The Dingle and Sachs Controversies
		2.7. The Deniers
		2.8. The Article
	3. The Article of Langevin
Part II: Physics
	4. The Clock or The Twin Paradox
		4.1. Inertial Frames
		4.2. The Lorentz Transformation
			4.2.1. Application of the Lorentz transformation
			4.2.2. Simultaneity and length contraction
		4.3. Dynamics
		4.4. The Formulation
		4.5. When a Frame Stops Its Motion
		4.6. A Graphical Solution
		4.7. The Two Aspects of the Concept of Mass
		4.8. The Gravitation–Acceleration Equivalence
		4.9. The Time in a Non-inertial Frame
		4.10. The Langevin Problem
	5. The First Solutions
		5.1. The First Einstein Argument
		5.2. The Lorentz Solution
		5.3. The Langevin Solution
		5.4. The Einstein Solution
		5.5. The Born Solution
	6. The Einstein-Møller Solution
		6.1. Determination of the Travel Times
			6.1.1. The point of view of the observer on the earth
			6.1.2. The point of view of the traveler
		6.2. Analysis of the Travel Times
		6.3. The Hafele–Keating Experiment
		6.4. The Precursor and the Followers
	7. The Disappearance of the Acceleration and the Symmetry Breaking
		7.1. How to Clear the Acceleration?
		7.2. The Symmetry Breaking
		7.3. The Exchange of Signals
		7.4. The Three-Frame Model
			7.4.1. Solution of the three-frame model
	Summary of Part II
Part III: Discussions
	8. Physicists Out of the Mainstream
		8.1. The Dingle Controversy
		8.2. The Sachs Controversy
		8.3. Dingle Versus Sachs
	9. Questions With and Without Answers
		9.1. The Time Dilation and the Time Reciprocity
		9.2. Forgetting Reciprocity
		9.3. The Acceleration
		9.4. The Multiplicity of Solutions
		9.5. Concluding Remarks
	10. Bergson and the Relativity
		10.1. The Philosopher Bergson
		10.2. The Content of “Duration and Simultaneity”
		10.3. Debates and Critics
		10.4. The Journey of the Projectile (The Clock Paradox)
	11. The Langevin Effect
Bibliography
Index