SUBJECT CATALOGUE

I. Alternative approaches, hypotheses, theories in relation to the relativity theory:

• Alternative decisions, the theory of gravitation
  
• Alternative decisions, electrodynamics
  
• Decision of classical (not relativistic) physics
  
• Ritz's hypothesis
  
• Aether
  
  

II. Biographic works and works on the natural sciences history

III. "Classics" of relativism, the analysis of works

IV. Criticism of theories of a relativity (SRT and GRT)

• Kinematics of the SRT
  
  • Books of the most general maintenance on the given section
    
  • Discussion of special questions of relativistic kinematics:
    • Relativistic time
      
    • Lorentz's transformations
      
    • Relativity of simultaneity
      
    • Paradoxes of relativistic kinematics
      
    • The relativistic law for velocity addition
      
  
  
• Dynamics of the SRT
  
  • Books of the most general maintenance on the given section
    
  • Maxwell's equations
    
  • Discussion on special questions of relativistic dynamics:
    • Dynamic concepts of the SRT:
      • Concept of mass; the centre of mass
        
      • Concept of the angular momentum
        
      • Concept of force
        
      • Concepts of energy and momentum
        
    • Criticism of interpretations of relativistic dynamics:
      • Movement of the charged particles, the equations
        
      • The conservation laws and the theory of collisions
        
      • Compton's effect
        
      • Spin; Thomas precession
        
  • A relativity principle
    
    
• The general relativity theory (GRT)
  
  • Books of the most general maintenance on the given section
    
  • Discussion of special questions:
    
    • Time in the GRT
      
    • Geometry of space
      
    • Equivalence principle
      
    • Consequences of the GRT
      
  • Max principle
    
  • Relativistic cosmology
    
  
  
• Experimental bases of the relativity theory
  
  • Books of a wide profile on the given section
    
  • Discussion of separate experiments:
    • Ivese-Stilwell experiment
      
    • Michelson-Morley and Kennedy-Thorndike experiments
      
    • Experiments of the GRT
      
    • Sagnac experiment
      
    • Fizeau experiment, aberration, Doppler effect and other experiments of the SRT
      
  • Light speed
    
  
  

V. Methodological works

VI. Philosophical works on the RT

VII. Accompanying problems of electrodynamics and other sections of physics

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