• In general relativity, a frame field (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike...
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    is linearly independent. Frame fields in general relativity are four-dimensional frames, or vierbeins, in German. In each of these examples, the collection...
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  • Reference Frame In fluid mechanics, Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field Other frames Frame fields in general relativity Moving frame in mathematics...
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  • respect to the bilinear form gP. Frame (linear algebra) Frame bundle k-frame Moving frame Frame fields in general relativity Lee, John (2013), Introduction...
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  • concepts of general relativity can be outlined outside the relativistic domain. In particular, the idea that mass–energy generates curvature in space and...
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  • Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions...
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  • The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and...
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  • in the framework of special relativity, the Maxwell equations have the same form in all inertial frames of reference. In the framework of general relativity...
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    fields. Special relativity provides the transformation rules for how an electromagnetic field in one inertial frame appears in another inertial frame...
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  • tensor fields defined on a Lorentzian manifold representing spacetime. This article is a general description of the mathematics of general relativity. Note:...
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  • In general relativity, a geodesic generalizes the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime. Importantly, the world line of a particle free from...
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  • In classical physics and special relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called an inertial space or a Galilean reference frame) is a frame of...
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    Albert Einstein's discovery of the gravitational field equations of general relativity and David Hilbert's almost simultaneous derivation of the theory...
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  • In special relativity, an observer is a frame of reference from which a set of objects or events are being measured. Usually this is an inertial reference...
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    General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed...
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  • Coframe (redirect from Coframe field)
    Bibcode:2019Univ....5..206T. doi:10.3390/universe5100206. Frame fields in general relativity Moving frame v t e "Structure coefficients of a coframe". Mathematics...
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  • In the general theory of relativity, the Einstein field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution...
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  • General relativity does not offer a single definition of the term mass, but offers several different definitions that are applicable under different circumstances...
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    frame. This possibility was raised by mathematician Henri Poincaré in 1900, and thereafter became a central idea in the special theory of relativity....
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  • modeled in finer detail, using the general principle of relativity, the concept of a frame-dependent gravitational field becomes less realistic. In these...
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  • Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert...
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  • proper reference frame in the theory of relativity is a particular form of accelerated reference frame, that is, a reference frame in which an accelerated...
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  • used in the context of special relativity to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating reference frame in flat spacetime. In relativistic...
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  • of a proper frame is essential for the investigation of physical laws within the framework of general relativity. The term comoving frame is also a good...
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  • General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published...
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  • Einstein derived the theory of special relativity in 1905, from principles now called the postulates of special relativity. Einstein's formulation is said[by...
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  • to general relativity are physical theories that attempt to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in competition with Einstein's theory of general relativity...
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  • according to special relativity. In his paper, he also introduced fields with imaginary mass (now also referred to as tachyons) in an attempt to understand...
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  • In the theory of general relativity, linearized gravity is the application of perturbation theory to the metric tensor that describes the geometry of...
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  • (and weight in a gravitational field) of any system containing them. The concept is generalized in mass in general relativity. The term mass in special relativity...
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