Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories von P.A. Kroes | ISBN 9789400965249

Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

von P.A. Kroes
Buchcover Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories | P.A. Kroes | EAN 9789400965249 | ISBN 94-009-6524-9 | ISBN 978-94-009-6524-9

Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

von P.A. Kroes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • I. Physical time and the problem of its structure.
  • I.1 Introduction.
  • I.2 The order structure of time.
  • I.3 The topological structure of time.
  • I.4 The metrical structure of time.
  • I.5 Conclusion.
  • Notes.
  • II. The geometrical nature of physical time: parameter time and coordinate time.
  • II.1 Introduction.
  • II.2 Parameter and coordinate.
  • II.3 Parameter and coordinate time in Newtonian physics.
  • II.4 Parameter and coordinate time in Einsteinian physics.
  • II.5 The geometrical nature of time in quantum mechanics.
  • II.6 Translation of the space and time into the spacetime formalism and vice versa.
  • II.7 The geometrical nature of time and dynamics.
  • II.8 Parameter versus coordinate time in the study of time; some philosophical issues.
  • III. Time asymmetry.
  • III.1 Arrow of time: time asymmetry and time flow.
  • III.2 Time asymmetry.
  • III.3 (Ir)reversibility and the time reversal operator T*.
  • III.4 Time asymmetry and temporal orientability.
  • IV. Thermodynamical time asymmetry and the second law of phenomenological thermodynamics.
  • IV. 1 Introduction.
  • IV. 2 The mechanical program.
  • IV. 3 The thermodynamical program.
  • IV. 4 Discussion.
  • Epilogue.
  • Name index.