# Equivalence principle

- Id: `equivalence_principle`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/equivalence-principle/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `3b23a4496171678f63dd65ebaa17ec194167e44c1e3647caae857642fed6d042`

## Summary

The equivalence principle locally relates the effects of a gravitational field to those of acceleration.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:einstein.relativity_popular_en:section-0105",
    "passage:einstein.relativity_popular_de:section-0076",
    "passage:einstein.principle_selected_papers:section-0063"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "principe d’équivalence",
    "equivalence principle",
    "Äquivalenzprinzip"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 258,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "einstein.nobel_lecture",
        "title": "Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/nobel-lecture/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_de",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-de/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_en",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.principle_selected_papers",
        "title": "The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by Einstein",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/principle-selected-papers/"
    }
]
```