Published December 15, 1978
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Journal article
Quantification of the equivalence principle
Description
Quantitative relationships illustrate Einstein's equivalence principle, relating it to Newton's ''fictitious'' forces arising from the use of noninertial frames, and to the form of the relativistic time dilatation in local Lorentz frames. The equivalence principle can be interpreted as the equivalence of general covariance to local Lorentz covariance, in a manner which is characteristic of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometries
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 18
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 4794-4795
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 10453159
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLASSICAL MECHANICS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; METRICS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; RELATIVITY THEORY; RIEMANN SPACE
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MECHANICS; SPACE