Abstract
THIS volume is substantially a translation of the lectures delivered by Prof. Lorentz in 1910–12 on what is now called the special theory of relativity, with one omission and a few additions. The part omitted dealt with gravitation, and has been withdrawn as being superseded by Einstein's general theory. One addition is an account of later experimental work on the mass of a moving electron. The results of Guye and Lavanchy (1916) on cathode rays of high velocity are described very fully, as they are regarded as removing any possible doubt as to the truth of the Lorentz transformation formulæ. Another addition, taken from later lectures, discusses a few specially difficult questions concerning tension, momentum, and energy.
Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik an der Universität Leiden.
Von Prof. Dr. H. A. Lorentz. Band 4: Die Relativitätstheorie für gleichförmige Translationen (1910–1912). Bearbeitet von Dr. A. D. Fokker. Übersetzt von Dr. H. Stücklen. Pp. ix + 180. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., 1929.) 13.80 gold marks.
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P., H. [Book Reviews]. Nature 123, 904–905 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123904c0
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