CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE iii
3. CONTENTS v
4. CHAPTER I. CLASSICAL PHYSICS 3
5. CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION TO SPACE-TIME 16
6. CHAPTER III. THE ISOMETRIC ASSUMPTION 33
7. CHAPTER IV. ISOTROPIC AND AEOLOTROPIC SPACE-TIME 46
8. CHAPTER V. DYNAMICS OF A LINEAR SET OF PARTICLES 57
9. CHAPTER VI. VECTORS AND TENSORS IN TWO DIMENSIONS 76
10. CHAPTER VII. ONE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS 91
11. CHAPTER VIII. TENSOR ANALYSIS 107
12. CHAPTER IX. GRAVITATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME 137
13. CHAPTER X. FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME 151
14. CHAPTER XI. DYNAMICS, HYDRODYNAMICS, ELASTICITY 167
15. CHAPTER XII. ELECTROMAGNETISM 186
16. CHAPTER XIII. LINEAR TENSOR EQUATIONS 209
17. CHAPTER XIV. THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD 222
18. CHAPTER XV. THE SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL FIELD 241
19. CHAPTER XVI. APPLICATIONS IN THE SOLAR FIELD 257
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 271
21. INDEX 277