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Definition of Principle of equivalence
1. Noun. (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Principle Of Equivalence
Literary usage of Principle of equivalence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Relativity by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1920)
"THE principle of equivalence. There are no coordinate axes in nature; these are
introduced by us for convenience in the analytical representation of ..."
2. The Theory of Relativity by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1920)
"THE principle of equivalence. There are no coordinate axes in nature; these are
introduced by us for convenience in the analytical representation of ..."
3. Thermodynamics and Chemistry: A Non-mathematical Treatise for Chemists and by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1903)
"... but ince this total transformation is a closed cycle, we have The principle
of equivalence may be thus announced: If a system describes a closed cycle, ..."
4. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1875)
"Is it simply the correlative form of the Principle of Equivalence, — the negative
of that affirmative ? or is it a new principle, having another reach ? ..."
5. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1875)
"Is it simply the correlative form of the Principle of Equivalence, — the negative
of that affirmative ? or is it a new principle, having another reach ? ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The principle of equivalence, which has since been considered as the first law
of thermodynamics, then, extended the dynamical generalization to a far ..."
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