INDEX

Acceleration vector
Affective future
Affective past
Angular momentum, conservation of
Angular orientation, and physical laws
Antiatoms
Antimatter
Antineutrons
Antiparticles
Antiprotons (p)
Atomic bomb, energy of
Atoms
anti-atoms of
conservation of energy and
mass at rest
reversibility in time and
scale of
Axial vectors

Beta decay
Billiard bills, collision of

Centrifugal force
Challenger (space shuttle)
Clocks
slowing in moving system
speed in gravitational field
Cobalt
Collision, analysis of
inelastic
Conservation laws
energy, conservation of. See Energy, conservation of
four-vectors
mass, conservation of
momentum, conservation of. See Momentum, conservation of
parity, conservation of
symmetry and
Conspiracy as law of nature, complete
Current time (space-time region)
Curved space (curvature)
defined
Einstein’s law for
geometry of
intrinsic
mean
negative
numbers
positive
space-time geometry and
three-dimensional
two-dimensional
Cylinders, curvature of

Directed quantities
Direction
effect of. See also Rotation of vectors
Displacement
Doppler effect
Dot products (vectors)
Dyson, Freeman

Earth, velocity of
Einstein, Albert
curved space-time laws
equivalence principle
field equation
gravitation theory
Lorentz transformation and
motion, equation of
relativity theories
Electrical charge, conservation of
Electricity
laws of
theories of relativity and
Electrodynamics, Maxwell’s laws of
Electron volts, energy measured in
Electrons
Energy
conservation of
equivalence of mass and,
of photon
relativistic
as time component of vectors
total energy of particle
vector analysis
velocity, momentum and total
Equivalence, Einstein’s principle of
Euclid
Event, in space-time

Feynman, Richard
as scientist
as teacher
Feynman Lectures on Physics, The
Feynman’s Preface
Special Preface
Force
Newton’s law on momentum and
rotation and
vector analysis
Foucault pendulum
Four-vector momentum
Four-vectors
Future (time-like interval)

Galilean transformation
Galileo
Gamma (τ)-meson
General Theory of Relativity
Geographical differences, effect on physical laws of
Geometry
of curved space
of space-time. See Space-time
Gravitation, laws of
change of scale, effect of
Einstein’s theory of
equivalence principle and
Newton’s laws of
reflection symmetry in
Gravitational field
motion law in
speed of clocks in

Huygens, Christian

Inelastic collision
Inertia
Intervals, space-time
Invariance. See Symmetry
Invariant. See Scalar

Kinetic energy
K-mesons

Least action, principle of
Left-handedness
Leighton, Robert B.
Light
distance measured by speed of
photon of
representation in space-time
velocity of
wavelength of, variations in
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Lorentz transformation
consequences of
contraction
laws of mechanics under
as rotation in time and space
simultaneity
space-time relationships implied by
twin paradox

Magnetic fields
cobalt experiment
electromagnetic field, Maxwell’s equations of See Electrodynamics, Maxwell’s laws of
geographical differences, effect of
poles and reflection symmetry
Magnetism
laws of
principle of relativity and
Mass
of colliding objects
conservation of
equivalence of energy and
in motion
relativity of
rest
rest mass equaling zero
temperature increase and
variation with speed
Matter, and antimatter
Maxwell, James Clerk. See Electrodynamics, Maxwell’s laws of
Mechanics, laws of
equations
Lorentz transformation, effect of
Michelson-Morley experiment
Minkowski, Hermann
Mirror reflections. See Reflection symmetry
Momentum
conservation of
four-vector
as function of velocity
Newton’s law on force and
of photon
speed, variation with
three-vector
transverse
vector components
velocity, total energy and
Mössbauer effect
Motion. See also Velocity
absolute
in curved space-time
Einstein’s equation of
of translation, uniform
vertical component of
Motion, laws of
gravitational field, law of motion in
Newton’s laws
Mu-mesons (muons)

Neutrons
Newton’s laws
force as rate of change of momentum
invariance of
least action, principle of
of motion
principle of relativity and
Second Law
of universal gravitation
in vector notation
Nuclear forces

Ordinary quantity

Parity, conservation of
failure of
Past (time-like interval)
Philosophers, and relativity
Photons
Physics, laws of. See also specific laws, e.g. Conservation laws
change of scale, effect of
invariance of
reversibility in time of
symmetry of
vector notation
Planck’s constant
Poincaré, Henri
Polar vectors
Positrons
Protons

Quantum mechanics

Reflection symmetry
antimatter and
identification of right and left
polar and axial vectors
Relativity, See also Lorentz transformation
addition of velocities in
energy, relativistic
General Theory of
of mass
Michelson and Morley experiment
momentum, law of conservation of
philosophers and
principle of
relativistic dynamics
simultaneity
Special Theory of
time, transformation of
Right-handedness
Rotation
Lorentz transformation
space-time measurements
symmetry and
uniform

Sands, Matthew
Scalar
Scalar function
Scalar product
Scale, changes in
Schrödinger equation
Schwinger, Julian
Seconds, measure of distance by
Simultaneity
failure at a distance
Sound waves, speed of
Space
curved. See Curved space
reflection in
rotation in
space-time compared
symmetry in
Space-like interval
Space-time
curvature of
events in
geometry of
intervals
ordinary space compared
past, present, and future in
“straight line” in
Special Theory of Relativity
Speed. See Velocity
Symmetry. See also Vectors
antimatter
broken
conservation laws and
conservation of parity and
defined
operations
of physical laws
polar and axial vectors
reflection. See Reflection symmetry
rotation of axes
scale, effect of changes in
in space and time
translational displacements
under uniform velocity in straight line

Temperature
mass and
as scalar
Theta (Θ)-meson
Three-dimensional curved space
Three-vectors
Time. See also Space-time
curved. See also Curved space
displacement in
reversibility in
symmetry in
transformation of
vector component
Time-like interval
Tomanaga, Sin-Itero
Transformations. See also Galilean transformation; Lorentz transformation
four-vector momentum
Translation, uniform motion of
Translational displacements
Twin paradox
Two-dimensional curved space

Undirected quantity
Unit vectors
Upsilon (Y)-rays
Uranium atom

Vector algebra
addition
four-vector
multiplication
subtraction
Vectors
acceleration
axial
components of
defined
direction of
four-vectors
Newton’s laws in vector notation
polar
properties of
scalar product of
symbol to mark
three-vectors
time components
unit
velocity
Velocity
absolute
addition of velocities in relativity
direction as property of
of earth
of light
mass and
momentum and
of sound waves
total energy and
transformation of
uniform
vectors
vertical component of

Waves
light, variations in length of
sound, speed of
Weak decay
Weyl, Hermann
Work