Philosophical concept
Equivalence principle
The equivalence principle locally relates the effects of a gravitational field to those of acceleration.
- Works
- 4
- Passages
- 258
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
The equivalence principle locally relates the effects of a gravitational field to those of acceleration.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 258 passages across 4 works, including Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: principe d’équivalence, equivalence principle, Äquivalenzprinzip
Works where the concept is identified
- Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 14 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein · 76 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 105 passages
- The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by EinsteinAlbert Einstein · 63 passages