8.20 MIT Introduction to Special Relativity IAP 2005 Tentative Outline 1 Main Headings I Introduction and relativity preEinstein II Einstein’s principle of relativity and a new concept of spacetime III The
Space, time, and number are among fundamental aspects of behavior and reasoning about the environment. Recent studies have shown that these dimensions highly interact with each other. To explain such interaction, two theories have been proposed: A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM), which posits the exist...
Up to now, we have only considered an “univariate Gauss–Markov model”. Its generalization towards a multivariate Gauss–Markov model will be given in Sect.14.1. At first, we define a multivariate linear model by Definition 14.1 by giving its...
Some aspects of Chinese literacy development do not conform to patterns of literacy development in alphabetic orthographies. Four are highlighted here. First, semantic radicals are one aspect of Chinese characters that have no analogy to alphabetic orthographies. Second, the unreliability of phonologica...
As such, both the denominations of "General Relativity" and "General Theory of Relativity" are confusing and lead to misunderstandings. Furthermore, such adjectives reflect also an incorrect understanding of the theory itself since they were adopted referring to the covariance of the equations with ...