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- Preface
- Storm Clouds Gather
- The Three Fundamental Consequences
- Epstein’s Simple Explanation
- Lorentz Transformations, Velocity Addition and Doppler Effect
- Mass, Momentum and Energy
- Conservation Laws
- From Special to General Theory of Relativity
- Epstein Diagrams for the General Theory of Relativity
- Testing the General Theory of Relativity
- The Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury
- The Deflection of Light in the Gravitational Field of the Sun
- The Shapiro Experiment
- The Experiment of Rebka and Pound
- Hafele and Keating Travel Around the World
- The Maryland Experiment
- GPS, LRS and Relativity
- The Einstein-Thirring-Lense Effect
- Gravitational Waves
- Problems and Suggestions
- Some Additional Topics
- Early Experiments to Measure the Speed of Light
- Natural Units of Measurement in the STR and GTR
- General Formulas for Velocity Addition, the Doppler Effect and Aberration
- Force and Acceleration in the STR
- The "Conquest of Space"
- Alternative Derivation of E = m·c·c
- Deriving the Formula for Addition of Speeds from an Epstein Diagram
- The Transformation of Electromagnetic Quantities
- STR with Four-Vectors
- Measuring and Seeing in the STR
- STR and Minkowski Diagrams
- STR and Penrose Diagrams
- STR and Asano Diagrams
- Bibliography