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THE second edition of Prof. M. Laue's book on relativity, though on the same plan as the first edition of 1911, contains several additions. In chapter ii. a short discussion of a second arrangement of the Röntgen Eichenwald experiments is inserted. The kinematic part of the theory of relativity, chapter iii., shows some slight explanatory extensions in § 6, and an enlarged discussion of the inadmissibility of propagation of any physical effects with a velocity exceeding that of light (§7). The “cause and effect” point of view here adopted, which leads to a rejection of any hypervelocity of propagation, seems somewhat too narrow. At any rate, it prevented the author from considering the admirable researches on relativistically rigid bodies of M. Born, and especially of Herglotz. In § 8 we remark a fuller exposition and illustration of the notion of “proper time.”
Das Relativitätsprinzip.
Zweite vermehrte Auflage. By Dr. M. Laue. Pp. xii + 272. (Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1913.) Price 8 marks.
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Das Relativitätsprinzip . Nature 91, 134 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091134b0
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