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acceleration 1, 17, 22, 26, 29, 33, 90, 105, 107-123

aether 2, 3, 12-17
Al Kindi 6, 11
Al Zarkali 6, 11
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Ampere 97
angular momentum 62
Aristarchus 3, 5, 10
Aristotle 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 12, 18

Bethe 84
binding energy 83-85

Cartesian 41, 45-51, 101

clock 6, 8-10, 23, 26, 29, 35-37, 89, 107, 109, 111
Compton 77, 78
contravariant 42-48, 55, 67
coordinate 12, 13, 23, 26, 39-41, 45, 46, 48-51, 54, 57, 65, 67,
101, 120
coordinate transformation 13, 31, 39, 41-43, 46, 47, 51
Copernicus 10
Coulomb 93, 94
covariant 42-48, 55, 67

De Broglie 80
Dirac delta function 95
Doppler 73, 74, 76, 90
dynamic 1, 17, 21, 25, 66, 105, 107, 117

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Eddington 115, 116

Einstein 8, 18, 21, 22, 28, 33, 34, 40, 42, 53, 71, 73, 93, 113
electromagnetism 8, 12, 13, 22, 73, 93-105, 118, 122
electron 13, 22, 62, 73, 77-80, 84, 88, 90, 92
energy 3, 12, 13, 17, 62, 63, 71-73, 75, 77-79, 82-90, 92, 102,
112, 118, 119, 121, 123
epicycle 2, 3
Eratosthenes 3, 4
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Euclidean 34, 50, 51, 61, 119, 121

Faraday 97
field 13, 29, 39, 93-97, 99-103, 105, 111, 118, 119, 121
Fitzgerald 17, 19, 28, 34
force 1, 8-10, 11, 13, 17, 22, 66, 80, 93-95, 102, 104, 108, 115,
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117, 118, 122

four-vector 39, 53-55, 60, 61, 63, 67, 69, 70, 72, 75, 77, 78, 80,
81, 85-88, 93, 99, 102-105, 115, 117, 118, 122
frame 22, 26, 33, 51, 60, 63-66, 74, 80-82, 85-87, 89, 9 1 , 92,
105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 119-122
frequency 73-75, 92, 112, 122

Galilean transformation 21, 30

Galileo 8, 10, 11, 18
gauge 103
Gauss 95-97
Glashow-Salam-Weinberg theory 90, 105

Hamilton 12, 13, 70-72

Hipparchus 4
Hooke 11
Hussain 119
Huyghens 12

Ibn-al-Haytham 5, 6, 10
inertial 22, 26, 33, 60, 107, 110, 111, 113-115, 119, 121

Jacobi 71, 99

Kepler 11
kinematics 1, 21, 25, 66, 69, 80, 83, 102, 107
kinetic energy 71, 83, 85-87, 121
Kronecker delta 42, 51, 59
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Lagrange 12, 13, 102

length 17, 28, 29, 32-34, 36, 37, 44, 45, 54, 89, 91, 109, 119
Levi-Civita symbol 100, 101
Lobachevskian 122
Lorentz 13, 17, 19, 27, 32, 34, 59-61, 65, 86, 93, 102, 110
Lorentz transformation 21, 25, 26, 28, 30-34, 39, 55-60, 62,
64, 65, 67, 75, 80, 82, 88, 93, 105
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mass 11, 13, 17, 19, 67, 70-72, 80-87, 89-92, 94, 105, 112,
114, 121-123
Maxwell 12, 13, 93, 98-100, 103, 104
metric 44, 48-51, 53, 55, 100, 101, 119-122
Michaelson 14, 16, 21, 22
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Minkowski 53, 61, 62, 99, 121

momentum 11, 12, 62, 70-72, 75, 77, 78, 80-83, 85-88, 90-92
Morley 14, 16, 21, 22

Newton 11, 13, 18, 94, 113

Noether 62
null 9, 16, 21, 62-65, 67, 70

photon 73-75, 77, 78, 80, 92, 112

Planck 73
Poincare" 13, 58, 59, 61-63
Poisson bracket 70, 71
Popper 18
proper-time 65, 69

Qadir 18, 119

rank 44
red-shift 76, 92, 112, 113
rest-energy 71, 86, 88
rest-frame 34-37, 65, 87, 89, 105
rest-length 29, 36, 89, 91, 109, 110
rest-mass 70, 74, 75, 78, 81, 85, 87-91, 122
Riemannian 121

scalar 39, 43, 44, 49, 97, 99, 103

Schwarzschild metric 121
simultaneous 9, 26, 28, 29, 63, 67
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space/spatial 6, 23, 27, 32, 39, 50, 51, 53, 55-57, 59-66, 80, 100,
108, 109, 117
speed 11, 12, 14-19, 21-23, 25-30, 34-37, 55, 57, 63, 67, 73,
76, 84, 89-92, 98, 99, 108-111, 119, 120, 122

tensor 39, 43-45, 48-51, 99-103, 120, 121

Thompson 13
time 1, 6-10, 13-17, 21-23, 26-28, 32, 35, 36, 55, 56, 60-67,
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69-71, 73, 76, 96-100, 107-109, 113, 114, 117, 119, 120
Tycho Brahe 11

valence 44
vector 15, 31, 32, 39-42, 51, 53-55, 60-65, 67, 69-71, 89, 95,
97, 99, 111, 115, 117
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velocity 1, 12-15, 21, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 57, 58, 63, 67, 69, 70,
71, 73, 76, 81-83, 87-89, 92, 96, 102, 105, 112, 119, 122

wave 8, 12, 16, 17, 23, 73, 98, 99, 113

wavelength 8, 16, 75, 77, 78, 80, 90, 92