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Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories
von P.A. KroesInhaltsverzeichnis
- 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.